TelegramBot
What is TelegramBot?
About
TelegramBot is Telegram's web crawler that fetches webpage content to generate Instant View pages and link previews for users, enabling rich content display directly within the messaging app. You can see how often TelegramBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.
Type
Expected Behavior
Fetchers retrieve metadata from web pages to generate link previews in social media platforms, messaging apps, and content aggregators. They're triggered on-demand when users share or post links, fetching information like titles, descriptions, and thumbnail images. Traffic is unpredictable and correlates with how often your content is shared. Viral content may trigger thousands of fetcher requests in a short period. Fetchers typically access only the shared URL rather than crawling your site.
Detail
Operated By | Telegram |
Last Updated | 4 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 TelegramBot?
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 TelegramBot?
You can block TelegramBot 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 | TelegramBot (like TwitterBot) |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: TelegramBot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/telegrambot
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.