User Agent

Prerender.io crawler User-Agent will always contain:

Prerender (+https://github.com/prerender/prerender)

Wherever you see the string Chrome/W.X.Y.Z in the user agent strings in the table, W.X.Y.Z is a placeholder that represents the version of the Chrome browser used by that user agent: for example, 117.0.5938.62-1.

These values can be spoofed. If you need to verify that the visitor is Prerender, you should use reverse DNS lookup.

Prerender.io crawler IP address ranges

See: IP Addresses

To verify that Prerender.io is the crawler:

Run a reverse DNS lookup on the accessing IP address from your logs, using the host command. Verify that the domain name is prerender.io. Run a forward DNS lookup on the domain name retrieved in step 1 using the host command on the retrieved domain name. Verify that it's the same as the original accessing IP address from your logs.

Example:

> host 142.54.167.130
130.167.54.142.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer us-mci1-38.renders.prerender.io.

> host us-mci1-38.renders.prerender.io
us-mci1-38.renders.prerender.io has address 142.54.167.130