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Instagram browser uses prerender

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
express, javascript
Domain
backend

Research direction

Locate the crawler list in prerender-node and inspect the change that added instagram. Remove instagram from that list, then verify that sites in the Instagram app browser are no longer prerendered while the other crawler fixes remain intact.

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Description

  • we pulled down the changes in https://github.com/prerender/prerender-node/pull/248 early to get the crawler fixes and noticed a small regression
  • including instagram in the list of crawlers breaks sites that don't want to be prerendered in the Instagram app browser
  • we verified that removing instagram from the list fixes the issue
Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
921
Forks
185
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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