diff --git a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/net/RobotsPolicy.java b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/net/RobotsPolicy.java
index 5703c880..0ee4faaa 100644
--- a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/net/RobotsPolicy.java
+++ b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/net/RobotsPolicy.java
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ abstract public class RobotsPolicy {
         STANDARD_POLICIES.put("obey", ObeyRobotsPolicy.INSTANCE);
         // the obey policy has also historically been called 'classic'
         STANDARD_POLICIES.put("classic", ObeyRobotsPolicy.INSTANCE);
-        STANDARD_POLICIES.put("ignore", IgnoreRobotsPolicy.INSTANCE); 
+        STANDARD_POLICIES.put("ignore", IgnoreRobotsPolicy.INSTANCE);
+        STANDARD_POLICIES.put("robotsTxtOnly", RobotsTxtOnlyPolicy.INSTANCE);
     }
 
     public abstract boolean allows(String userAgent, CrawlURI curi, Robotstxt robotstxt);
diff --git a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/net/RobotsTxtOnlyPolicy.java b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/net/RobotsTxtOnlyPolicy.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..65545f5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/net/RobotsTxtOnlyPolicy.java
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*
+ *  This file is part of the Heritrix web crawler (crawler.archive.org).
+ *
+ *  Licensed to the Internet Archive (IA) by one or more individual
+ *  contributors.
+ *
+ *  The IA licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ *  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ *  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.archive.modules.net;
+
+/**
+ * Policy to obey robots.txt but ignore meta nofollow.
+ */
+public class RobotsTxtOnlyPolicy extends ObeyRobotsPolicy {
+    public static RobotsPolicy INSTANCE = new RobotsTxtOnlyPolicy();
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean obeyMetaRobotsNofollow() {
+        return false;
+    }
+}