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A list of common crawler user agents useful for retrieving metadata from links
derivated from crawler-user-agents.
Some websites (such as Twitter) only return rich HTML metadata if you are identified as popular crawler (like Slack, or WhatsApp).
The list is derivated from crawler-user-agents after applying a script, so it's always up-to-date to latest changes.
$ npm install top-crawler-agents --save
const uniqueRandomArray = require('unique-random-array')
const randomCrawlerAgent = uniqueRandomArray(require('top-crawler-agents'))
console.log(randomCrawlerAgent())
// => 'Slackbot-LinkExpanding (+https://api.slack.com/robots)'
top-crawler-agents © Kiko Beats, released under the MIT License.
Authored and maintained by Kiko Beats with help from contributors.
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A list of common crawler agents used on Internet..
We found that top-crawler-agents 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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