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Buffer Link Preview Bot

Name: Buffer Link Preview Bot
Author: Buffer

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When Buffer users share links in their social media posts, their scraper helps create engaging previews. Operated by Buffer.

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Assessment

Page Preview

What is Buffer Link Preview Bot?

Buffer Link Preview Bot is a web crawler operated by Buffer. When Buffer users share links in their social media posts, their scraper helps create engaging previews.

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

Identification

Bot name

Buffer Link Preview Bot

Operator

Buffer

Why it crawls your site

Buffer Link Preview Bot crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by Buffer 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 Buffer Link Preview Bot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for BufferLinkPreviewBot 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 Buffer Link Preview Bot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: BufferLinkPreviewBot
Disallow: /

# Allow Buffer Link Preview Bot full access
User-agent: BufferLinkPreviewBot
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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