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.

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By Skype
Last Updated 9 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

United States
SkypeUriPreview normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Computers and Electronics
Online Communities
Health
Hobbies and Leisure
Science
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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.

How Do I Block All Fetchers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new fetchers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) SkypeUriPreview Preview/0.5 skype-url-preview@microsoft.com 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: SkypeUriPreview # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/skypeuripreview
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.