Deprecate ReppyRobotParser (#6099)

docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst

@@ -1039,8 +1039,8 @@ RobotsTxtMiddleware
 
     * :ref:`Protego <protego-parser>` (default)
     * :ref:`RobotFileParser <python-robotfileparser>`
-    * :ref:`Reppy <reppy-parser>`
     * :ref:`Robotexclusionrulesparser <rerp-parser>`
+    * :ref:`Reppy <reppy-parser>` (deprecated)
 
     You can change the robots.txt_ parser with the :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_PARSER`
     setting. Or you can also :ref:`implement support for a new parser <support-for-new-robots-parser>`.
@@ -1133,6 +1133,7 @@ In order to use this parser:
 
     .. warning:: `Upstream issue #122
         <https://github.com/seomoz/reppy/issues/122>`_ prevents reppy usage in Python 3.9+.
+        Because of this the Reppy parser is deprecated.
 
 * Set :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_PARSER` setting to
   ``scrapy.robotstxt.ReppyRobotParser``

scrapy/robotstxt.py

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 import logging
 import sys
 from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
+from warnings import warn
 
+from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
 from scrapy.utils.python import to_unicode
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -79,6 +81,7 @@ class PythonRobotParser(RobotParser):
 
 class ReppyRobotParser(RobotParser):
     def __init__(self, robotstxt_body, spider):
+        warn("ReppyRobotParser is deprecated.", ScrapyDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
         from reppy.robots import Robots
 
         self.spider = spider