Bluesky Link Preview Service

What is Bluesky Link Preview Service?

About

Bluesky Link Preview Service is a fetcher operated by Bluesky. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Bluesky Link Preview Service 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 11 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Bluesky Link Preview Service
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Country of Origin

Unknown
Bluesky Link Preview Service has no known country of origin

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 Link Preview Service?

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 Link Preview Service?

⚠️ 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 Link Preview Service 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.

# robots.txt

User-agent: Bluesky Link Preview Service # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/bluesky-link-preview-service
Disallow: /