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Laravel middleware for prerendering javascript-rendered pages on the fly for SEO

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_escaped_fragment_ is deprecated by google 3 years ago

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commented

No, this library is not deprecated. This library checks googlebot by their user agent directly instead of following the escaped fragment protocol:

https://github.com/jeroennoten/Laravel-Prerender/blob/master/config/prerender.php#L144

commented

Just for the record and to make this more clear for everyone else, if I enable 'googlebot' in 'crawler_user_agents' list (using prerender.io), am I at risk to being penalized for cloaking?
Is there any reason why I shouldn't allow googlebot, yahoo, and bingbot while using prerender.io?

commented

If you enable 'googlebot' in the list of user agents, you are not at risk of being penalized for cloaking.
Checking Googlebot by their user agent to return a prerendered page follows Google's Dynamic Rendering specifications:

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/dynamic-rendering

Google even recommends using Prerender.io in the documentation on Dynamic Rendering.

commented

Hiya,

I just installed the package, but in the published config file, I literally read the following:

 'crawler_user_agents' => [
    // googlebot, yahoo, and bingbot are not in this list because
    // we support _escaped_fragment_ and want to ensure people aren't
    // penalized for cloaking.

    // 'googlebot',
    // 'yahoo',
    // 'bingbot',

So are we really safe to uncommend those three?
I notice the change in config/prerender to date from AFTER the last release, so I'm still getting the conig with the above message.

Is this library actively maintained still?

commented

@thoop, same thing as @denjaland