What is Meta-ExternalFetcher?

Meta’s fetcher for someone asking its assistant, now. tidekeeper knows it by its User-Agent.

Run by

Meta

Reads for

For someone now

Known by

“meta-externalfetcher” in its User-Agent, and Meta-ExternalFetcher 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: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

Or only part of the site: Disallow: /private/ under the same User-agent line.

On tidekeeper.eu

Meta-ExternalFetcher has not read tidekeeper.eu in the last 30 days.

Meta’s other bots