Facebot Twitterbot/1.0
GoodBotCommunity-sourced"Facebot" refers to several distinct applications and tools across different domains: FaceBot Chatbot Platform : A marketing and customer support automation tool designed to enhance revenue, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction. It offers features such as bot automation, email and SMS campaigns, and post scheduling. ( facebot.io ) FaceBot AI Face Swap App : An AI-powered application for Android devices that enables users to swap faces in photos and videos. It provides a variety of templates and advanced photo editing tools for creative content creation. ( play.google.com ) Facebot Slack Integration : A Slack bot that integrates Facebook Messenger with Slack channels, allowing users to communicate with Facebook Messenger contacts directly through Slack. ( github.com ) Facebot Educational Robot : A desktop robot featuring an 8x8 LED display matrix, powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico W. It is designed for educational purposes, allowing users to control the robot via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and display scrolling text and simple animations. ( kevsrobots.com ) Each of these "Facebot" applications serves a unique purpose, ranging from marketing automation and AI-driven photo editing to educational robotics and communication integration. Operated by Facebot.
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What we read
- Aggressive Facebook Bot - Application Performance - Cloudflare Community
- Preventing Twitterbot to access website and UTM parameters
- robots.txt usage over the Alexa million - Benjojo's Blog
- Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt | Hacker News
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
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Requests from Facebot Twitterbot/1.0 originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
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Add a Disallow rule for Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0 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 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0 from crawling your entire site User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0 Disallow: / # Allow Facebot Twitterbot/1.0 full access User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0 Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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