OpenGraph.io

What is OpenGraph.io?

About

OpenGraph.io is a web crawler that extracts Open Graph metadata, titles, descriptions, and images from web pages to generate rich link previews for social sharing platforms. You can see how often OpenGraph.io 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	Opengraph
Last Updated	5 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking OpenGraph.io

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Country of Origin

United States

OpenGraph.io 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 OpenGraph.io?

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 OpenGraph.io?

⚠️ 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 OpenGraph.io 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 (compatible; OpenGraph.io/1.1; +https://opengraph.io/;) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36

# robots.txt
# This should block OpenGraph.io

User-agent: OpenGraph.io
Disallow: /