Features and Functionalities

Documentation on all the available features and functionalities currently available. If you are looking for a feature not covered here, please suggest it via your Dashboard.

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Written by Raquel Heyman , Zsolt Varga , Paul Vlad Luca and 3 others

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What can I do with Prerender.io Rest API?

Swagger All of our current API endpoints are also available via Swagger . Recache You can use the recache API to cache a URL for the first time or recache a URL cached previously. This POST request needs to be in JSON format; otherwise, it wo...

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Written by Raquel Heyman , Zsolt Varga , Paul Vlad Luca and 1 others

Updated on : 14 Mar 2023

Overview of Prerender.io Crawlers

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 tha...

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Written by Raquel Heyman , Zsolt Varga , Paul Vlad Luca and 1 others

Updated on : 18 May 2022

Recaching

There are two queues, the priority queue, and the normal queue. Both queues recache at the same rate. Your recache rate is NUM_CACHED_PAGES / CACHE_FRESHNESS pages recached each day (divide by 24 to get pages recached per hour, etc). So, your cach...

Written by Raquel Heyman , Zsolt Varga , Paul Vlad Luca

Updated on : 17 Mar 2022

Desktop vs. Mobile

When using Prerender.io, most websites don't experience any issues with mobile vs. desktop crawlers as they are responsive. If your website is adaptive and you serve a different page to desktop vs. mobile viewports, we can turn on a feature for your...

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Written by Raquel Heyman , Zsolt Varga , Irina Oancia and 2 others

Updated on : 06 Jan 2023

Team Accounts / Multi Users

Prerender.io has a multi-user functionality, which is still under development. You can invite your team members via your Dashboard by navigating to My Account and then scrolling down to the very bottom until you see the Invitation section. Pleas...

Written by Raquel Heyman , Zsolt Varga , Laszlo Takacs

Updated on : 26 Sep 2022

Sitemap

Functionality The Prerender worker can identify subsequent sitemaps once the main one is added in the Sitemaps section. Once a sitemap is activated, the Prerender worker will check it every 7 days, re-cache the URLs that are already cached, and ca...

Written by Raquel Heyman , Irina Oancia , Laszlo Luczo

Updated on : 07 Dec 2022

Need a feature that isn't listed here?

If you are looking for a feature that is not listed in the articles in this section, feel free to add it via our Feature Request option, that you can find in your Dashboard. You can submit it by clicking on the Submit Idea button in the upper righ...

Written by Raquel Heyman

Updated on : 18 Mar 2022