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Documented user-agents (5)

Each distinct UA this vendor publishes on its docs page, extracted by Haiku from the latest snapshot. New UAs appearing or scope changes here are the high-signal events to watch.

User-agent Purpose Scope / when it fires Opt-out
FacebookExternalHit Crawl shared content on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger to gather title, description, and thumbnail Content shared on Meta family apps, gathers metadata for display in social feeds User-agent: facebookexternalhit / Disallow: / in robots.txt (may bypass for security checks)
Meta-WebIndexer Improve Meta AI search result quality and content relevance for AI responses General web crawl to index content for Meta AI search capabilities User-agent: meta-webindexer / Disallow: / in robots.txt
Meta-ExternalAds Crawl web for improving advertising and business-related products and services Web indexing for advertising and business intelligence purposes User-agent: meta-externalads / Disallow: / in robots.txt
Meta-ExternalAgent Train foundation AI models and improve products by indexing content directly General web crawl for AI model training and product development User-agent: meta-externalagent / Disallow: / in robots.txt
Meta-ExternalFetcher Fetch individual links at user request to support agentic AI capabilities and task completion User-triggered fetch for helping AI navigate websites and complete tasks robots.txt rules may be bypassed as fetches are user-requested
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