SkypeUriPreview
What is SkypeUriPreview?
About
SkypeUriPreview is Skype's link preview bot that fetches page content when users share URLs in Skype messages, extracting metadata to display rich previews with titles, descriptions, and thumbnails. You can see how often SkypeUriPreview 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.
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Operated By | Skype |
Last Updated | 20 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block SkypeUriPreview?
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 SkypeUriPreview?
You can block SkypeUriPreview 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 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) SkypeUriPreview Preview/0.5 skype-url-preview@microsoft.com |
# robots.txt
# This should block SkypeUriPreview
User-agent: SkypeUriPreview
Disallow: /