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The seo_renderer package is a Flutter plugin designed for Flutter Web applications, enabling text widgets to be rendered as HTML for improved search engine optimization. By converting Flutter's text components into static HTML, it enhances SEO visibility without sacrificing the app's dynamic functionality. This package is particularly useful for content-heavy web apps where discoverability matters. It supports all major platforms, including Web, Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux, ensuring consistent rendering across environments.
Use cases
Improving SEO for Flutter web content
Rendering static text for search engines
Enhancing visibility of blog or article pages
Optimizing documentation sites
Supporting web crawlers with structured text
Enabling server-side rendering of text
Key features
Converts Flutter Text widgets to HTML
Improves search engine indexing
Cross-platform compatibility
Lightweight and easy integration
Preserves text formatting
Works seamlessly with Flutter Web
Suitable for
Content-driven Flutter web apps
Blogs and news websites
Documentation portals
SEO-focused web applications
Developers prioritizing web visibility
Considerations
Not needed for non-SEO use cases
May increase bundle size slightly
Best used on static or semi-static content
Requires careful handling in dynamic UIs
Limited to text rendering, not full widget conversion
Performance impact on large text blocks
Original README
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SEO Renderer [Not Maintaining]
Alternative : https://pub.dev/packages/seo
A flutter plugin (under development) to render text, link, image widgets as html elements for SEO purpose.
Created specifically for issue https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/46789
It will automatic detect the crawler using regex and navigator userAgent and add the HtmlElement you choose to the DOM.
All PR's are welcome :)
Getting Started
Add this to your pubspec.yaml
dependencies:seo_renderer:^0.6.0
Get the package from Pub:
flutter packages get
Import it in your file
import'package:seo_renderer/seo_renderer.dart';
Usage
It's required to add a RobotDetector to detect if page is visited by a robot and add seoRouteObserver to observe when widgets change their visibility. To do this simply wrap MaterialApp within RobotDetector and add seoRouteObserver in navigatorObservers:
runApp(
RobotDetector(
debug: true, // you can set true to enable robot mode
child: MaterialApp(
home: MyApp(),
navigatorObservers: [seoRouteObserver],
),
),
);
For more complex projects it's recommended to add these lines in index.html which will force html web renderer in case robot is detected. It's because canvaskit has some stricter limits and potenitally can break.
To render html text element above a child you pass Text, RichText as the child or simply set the text.
TextRenderer(
child: Text(
'Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.',
),
)
TextRenderer(
text: 'Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.',
child: CustomWidget(),
)
Optionally you can change the html element between <h1> to <h6> and <p> by setting style. Default value is TextRendererStyle.paragraph.
TextRenderer(
style: TextRendererStyle.paragraph,
child: Text(
'Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.',
),
)
TextRenderer(
style: TextRendererStyle.header1,
child: Text(
'Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.',
),
)
LinkRenderer
To render html link element above a child set text and href.
To render html image element above a child set alt and pass Image.network(...), Image.asset(...), Image.memory(...) as the child or simply set the src.
Select GoogleBot here's how as userAgent in Network Condition and refresh the page to see created Div Elements.
License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2021 Sahdeep Singh
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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SOFTWARE.