Facebot

Last updated 1 hour ago.

Compliant

What is Facebot?

About

[OUTDATED] Facebook's Social Media Crawler for previews

Operator

Facebook

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Did you find Facebot/1.0 in your logs?

If you've seen Facebot/1.0 in your website logs, it indicates that Facebot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.

Facebot/1.0

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Expected Behavior

This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.

Should I Block Facebot?

This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.

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How Do I Block Facebot?

You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.

User Agent Tokens

FacebotShould match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block Facebot

User-agent: Facebot
Disallow: /

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