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A tiny node module to detect spiders/crawlers quickly and comes with optional middleware for ExpressJS
It might be useful when you have a single page app but want to deliver static pages for spiders.
npm install spider-detector // or `yarn install spider-detector`
const detector = require('spider-detector')
detector.isSpider('baiduspider') // return true
const detector = require('spider-detector')
const express = require('express')
const app = express()
app.use(detector.middleware())
app.get('/*', function(req, res) {
if (req.isSpider()) {
// do something else, i.E. send a static page
} else {
// send single page app
}
})
Well, I wanted one which does not use readFileSync
and comes with optional middleware. Furthermore some hackers do not classify Googlebot as a spider anymore which poses a problem sometimes, see next question.
Yep, Googlebot is able to deal with single page apps but this feature is pretty unstable. Especially under AngularJS when hash fragments are disabled with $locationProvider.html5Mode(true)
. That's why - against all odds - I have classified googlebot
as a spider in this module.
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A tiny node module to detect spiders/crawlers quickly and comes with optional middleware for ExpressJS
The npm package spider-detector receives a total of 1,750 weekly downloads. As such, spider-detector popularity was classified as popular.
We found that spider-detector demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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