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Facebook Crawler

Facebook Crawler Simulator

Test how Meta's crawler fetches your pages for link previews on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Optimize your Open Graph tags.

Test your site with Facebook Crawler

Enter your URL to see how Facebook Crawler views your website.

What is Facebook Crawler?

Facebook's crawler (facebookexternalhit) fetches your web pages to generate link previews when content is shared on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger. It reads Open Graph meta tags to display titles, descriptions, and images. The Meta-ExternalAgent crawler is also used for content understanding across Meta's platforms.

Why Allow Facebook Crawler?

Generate rich link previews on Facebook
Display proper thumbnails on Instagram link stickers
Show accurate previews in Messenger
Optimize sharing on Threads
Improve click-through rates on shared links
Control how your content appears when shared

Facebook Crawler robots.txt Configuration

Control how Facebook Crawler accesses your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain.

Allow Facebook Crawler

# Allow Facebook/Meta crawlers
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

Block Facebook Crawler

# Block Facebook/Meta crawlers (not recommended)
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-Agent String: facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext)

Facebook Crawler FAQ

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