Known bots · Meta
What is facebookexternalhit?
Meta’s fetcher for link previews. tidekeeper knows it by its User-Agent.
- Run by
- Meta
- Reads for
- Link preview
- Known by
- “facebookexternalhit” in its User-Agent, and facebookexternalhit in robots.txt
- Its addresses
- Meta publishes no list, so a read is known by its name alone: anyone can send it.
- Its owner’s page
- developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers
Keep it out
User-agent: facebookexternalhit Disallow: /
Or only part of the site: Disallow: /private/ under the same User-agent line.
On tidekeeper.eu
facebookexternalhit read tidekeeper.eu 18 times in the last 30 days, as tidekeeper counts its own site, from its server.