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What is meta-webindexer?

Meta's crawler for search in Meta AI. It follows robots.txt; Meta publishes no IP ranges for it.

robots.txt token
meta-webindexer
Operator
Meta
Purpose
Search
Obeys robots.txt
Yes The operator says it follows robots.txt.
Documented by operator
Yes, on the operator's own pages.
Documentation
developers.facebook.com

Block meta-webindexer from your whole site

robots.txt
User-agent: meta-webindexer
Disallow: /

Allow it, but keep private paths out

robots.txt
User-agent: meta-webindexer
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

Other bots from Meta

Add it to a robots.txt in the generator →

Sources

  1. developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/

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