snapchat

What is snapchat?

About

snapchat is a fetcher operated by Snapchat. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often snapchat 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 Snapchat
Last Updated 12 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1%
1% of top websites are blocking snapchat
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Country of Origin

Romania
snapchat normally visits from Romania

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Beauty and Fitness
Finance
Shopping
Travel and Transportation
Home and Garden
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Robots.txt

Should I Block snapchat?

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 snapchat?

⚠️ 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.

You can block snapchat 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 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Mobile/15E148 Snapchat/13.46.1.0 (like Safari/8621.2.5.10.10, panda)
# robots.txt
# This should block snapchat

User-agent: snapchat
Disallow: /

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