Bluesky

What is Bluesky?

About

Bluesky social network's link preview bot pre-fetches URLs to generate webpage previews for posts, enabling rich content display in the decentralized social media platform's open ecosystem. You can see how often Bluesky visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By Bluesky
Last Updated 18 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Bluesky
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Country of Origin

United States
Bluesky normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Bluesky?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block Bluesky?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Bluesky or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Bluesky Cardyb/1.1; +mailto:support@bsky.app) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 
# robots.txt
# This should block Bluesky

User-agent: Bluesky
Disallow: /

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