facebookexternalhit

Last updated 15 hours ago.

facebookexternalhit is a fetcher operated by Meta. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to see how often facebookexternalhit visits your website.

Detail

Operator

Type

Fetcher

Fetches web content on behalf of an app

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.

Analytics

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Robots.txt

Should I Block facebookexternalhit?

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 facebookexternalhit?

You can block facebookexternalhit 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 Token	Description
`facebookexternalhit`	Should match instances of facebookexternalhit

# robots.txt
# This should block facebookexternalhit

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Disallow: /