Add support for MSNBot, BingPreview, and AdIdxBot crawlers #581
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Adds detection for three additional Bing/Microsoft crawlers per their official crawler list: MSNBot, BingPreview, and AdIdxBot.
Changes
parser-browsers.js): Added patterns for MSNBot, BingPreview, and AdIdxBot. Placed before BingCrawler to ensure specific patterns match first.parser-platforms.js): Added bot type classification with appropriate vendors (Microsoft for MSNBot, Bing for BingPreview/AdIdxBot).constants.js): Added aliases and mappings for the three new bots.useragentstrings.yml): Added real user agent strings covering both numeric versions and alpha/beta suffixes.Version handling
Regex pattern
/(\d+(\.\d+)*[a-z]*)/isupports versions like "2.0", "2.1", and "2.0b" (with alpha/beta suffixes).Note: Googlebot and BingCrawler were already supported.
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