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meteor package to handle facebookexternalhit responses (for og:metatags use)
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Spiderable compatibility #3

Closed iplanwebsites closed 11 years ago

iplanwebsites commented 11 years ago

The spiderable meteor package makes the site indexable by search engines using phantom-js.

Once activated, FacebookExternal hits gets served with the spiderable-generated stuff, not the Headly Meta. What would be the most elegant way to have both packages play nicely?

PS: I also had troubles with MRT, so I use Headly_server.js directly, if that makes any difference.

ayal commented 11 years ago

I think that if you use spiderable you don't need headly. See my comment here on how to use spiderable to serve Facebook with the correct meta-tags: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/411

If you still choose to have them both, test it and see which one gets the "preference" for serving the facebookexternalhit agent, maybe it depends on the order they appear in the .meteor/packages file...

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:36 AM, I Plan Websites notifications@github.comwrote:

The spiderable meteor package makes the site indexable by search engines using phantom-js.

Once activated, FacebookExternal hits gets served with the spiderable-generated stuff, not the Headly Meta. What would be the most elegant way to have both packages play nicely?

PS: I also had troubles with MRT, so I use Headly_server.js directly, if that makes any difference.

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iplanwebsites commented 11 years ago

Thanks for the timely answer! On thing I really liked about Headly was the possibility to generate these metas-tags only on facebook-external-hits. Do you know what user-agent pahntom-js define on client-side for facebook request? Or is there a isPhantom or isSpiderable hook that'd be more appropriate?

ayal commented 11 years ago

Hi sorry for the very late reply, i somehow missed this question and have not tended to headly in a long time. I also don't know the answers to the questions you asked here.. I can assume phantomjs lets you set the user-agent himself when you use it, so you should ask the Meteor guys about that.