Hi all,
I've been working on KERN-3084 [1] which tries to add support for Google's AJAX
crawler [2].
When Google notices you're using AJAX/Javascript to display content on your
page it sends a request to the server asking for a completely rendered page.
The idea is that we then run the page trough a headless browser and sent that
response back to Google.
I've created an implementation [3] [4] that does this but I'd like some
feedback before I send a PR.
This commit would, much like the preview processor, bring in yet another
dependency. I'm using PhantomJS as it fires up a headless WebKit browser and
exposes a nice little nodejs api that you can (ab)use.
I tried using the same toolset as the previewprocessor (wkhtmltopdf) but that
just seems to generate PDF's and doesn't allow access to the generated DOM?
(PhantomJS supports PDF creation but it's nowhere near as good as wkhtmltopdf
though.)
What's the feeling about this? Does anyone have a recommendation for a better
tool/approach?
Regards,
Simon
[1] https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KERN-3084
[2] https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started
[3]
https://github.com/simong/nakamura/commit/83212d6fe814ee32be7dd3d9cd771c40dff6f69f
[4]
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KERNDOC/KERN-3084+Making+OAE+indexable+by+Google
[5] http://phantomjs.org/
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