appstract/laravel-crawl-render

Pre-render your site for web crawlers

[Wip] Laravel Crawler Pre-render

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A simple package to pre-render your Javascript site for web crawlers like Google bot to improve your SEO., _(*2)

It uses Spatie's Crawler and Browsershot to crawl your website and store the HTML. Crawlers (detected by Jaybizzle's Crawler Detect) are getting the pre-rendered version served., _(*3)

Installation

You can install the package via composer:, _(*4)

``` bash composer require appstract/laravel-crawl-render, <sub>(*5)</sub>

You need Puppeteer to be installed for Browsershot to work, see: [https://github.com/spatie/browsershot#requirements](https://github.com/spatie/browsershot#requirements) 

## Usage
First add the middleware to any routes you want to Pre-render.

``` php
\Appstract\CrawlRender\Middleware\CrawlerPrerenderMiddleware::class

Then run the crawler to pre-render your site: ``` php php artisan prerender:crawl, <sub>(*6)</sub>

You can run this command regularly, for example after a deploy or with a schedule:

``` php
// app/console/Kernel.php
protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
    $schedule->command('prerender:crawl')->daily()->at('02:00');
}

Testing

bash composer test, <sub>(*7)</sub>

Contributing

Contributions are welcome, thanks to y'all :), <sub>(*8)</sub>

About Appstract

Appstract is a small team from The Netherlands. We create (open source) tools for webdevelopment and write about related subjects on Medium. You can follow us on Twitter, buy us a beer or support us on Patreon., <sub>(*9)</sub>

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information., <sub>(*10)</sub>