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Bluesky Link Preview Service

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Bluesky social pulls links in advance to render webpage previews. Operated by Bluesky.

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Assessment
Page Preview
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is Bluesky Link Preview Service?

Bluesky Link Preview Service is a web crawler operated by Bluesky. Bluesky social pulls links in advance to render webpage previews.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name
Bluesky Link Preview Service
Operator
Bluesky
Category
Page Preview
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
bluesky-app
User-agent patterns
Bluesky/
User-agent string
Bluesky/
Main use cases
Link preview generationThumbnail creationSocial media cards

Why it crawls your site

Bluesky Link Preview Service crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by Bluesky as part of their link preview infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Bluesky Link Preview Service

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Bluesky/ in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Bluesky Link Preview Service from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Bluesky/
Disallow: /

# Allow Bluesky Link Preview Service full access
User-agent: Bluesky/
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Bluesky/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Bluesky's documentation.

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Last updated July 26, 2026