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.

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 Telegram
Last Updated 6 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

United Kingdom
TelegramBot normally visits from the United Kingdom

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Finance
Hobbies and Leisure
Internet and Telecom
Computers and Electronics
Autos and Vehicles
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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?

⚠️ 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 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) 
# robots.txt
# This should block TelegramBot

User-agent: TelegramBot
Disallow: /

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