diff --git a/.github/workflows/maven-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/maven-publish.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dab69fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/maven-publish.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# This workflow will build a package using Maven and then publish it to GitHub packages when a release is created
+# For more information see: https://github.com/actions/setup-java/blob/main/docs/advanced-usage.md#apache-maven-with-a-settings-path
+
+name: Maven Package
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [created]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      packages: write
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Set up JDK 11
+      uses: actions/setup-java@v3
+      with:
+        java-version: '11'
+        distribution: 'temurin'
+        server-id: github # Value of the distributionManagement/repository/id field of the pom.xml
+        settings-path: ${{ github.workspace }} # location for the settings.xml file
+
+    - name: Build with Maven
+      run: mvn -B package --file pom.xml
+
+    - name: Publish to GitHub Packages Apache Maven
+      run: mvn deploy -s $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/settings.xml
+      env:
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/search/robotstxt/Parser.java b/src/main/java/com/google/search/robotstxt/Parser.java
index 2cfd9f4..bc0c326 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/search/robotstxt/Parser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/search/robotstxt/Parser.java
@@ -45,5 +45,5 @@ protected Parser(ParseHandler parseHandler) {
    * @param robotsTxtBodyBytes body of robots.txt file to parse
    * @return matcher representing given robots.txt file
    */
-  abstract Matcher parse(final byte[] robotsTxtBodyBytes);
+  public abstract Matcher parse(final byte[] robotsTxtBodyBytes);
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/search/robotstxt/RobotsParser.java b/src/main/java/com/google/search/robotstxt/RobotsParser.java
index e1ddb75..a28a829 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/search/robotstxt/RobotsParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/search/robotstxt/RobotsParser.java
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ private void parseLine(
   }
 
   @Override
-  Matcher parse(byte[] robotsTxtBodyBytes) {
+  public Matcher parse(byte[] robotsTxtBodyBytes) {
     final byte[] bomUtf8 = {(byte) 0xEF, (byte) 0xBB, (byte) 0xBF};
     int bomPos = 0;