.htaccess for SEO bots crawling single page applications without hashbangs

Question

Using a pushState enabled page, normally you redirect SEO bots using the escaped_fragment convention. You can read more about that here

Answer 1

I was having the exact same problem. For now, I've modified .htaccess like so:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^$ /snapshots/index.html? [L,NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /snapshots/$1.html? [L,NC]

Not sure if there's a better solution, but it's working for me so far. Just be sure to have the directory structure for your snapshots match the URL structure.