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meta-externalfetcher
Operated by Meta · AI answers
Fetches when users request or share URLs in Meta AI.
User-agent token
meta-externalfetcherrobots.txt
robots.txt compliance not documented
Allow or block meta-externalfetcher
By default every well-behaved crawler is allowed. To block meta-externalfetcher specifically, add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher Disallow: /
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