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HubSpot Page Fetcher

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When posting to LinkedIn from Hubspot, images need to be pulled through to LinkedIn when published. The crawler performs this function Operated by HubSpot.

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Assessment

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What is HubSpot Page Fetcher?

HubSpot Page Fetcher is a web crawler operated by HubSpot. When posting to LinkedIn from Hubspot, images need to be pulled through to LinkedIn when published. The crawler performs this function

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

Identification

Bot name

HubSpot Page Fetcher

Operator

HubSpot

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

HubSpot Page Fetcher crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by HubSpot 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 HubSpot Page Fetcher

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for HubSpot Page Fetcher 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 HubSpot Page Fetcher from crawling your entire site
User-agent: HubSpot Page Fetcher
Disallow: /

# Allow HubSpot Page Fetcher full access
User-agent: HubSpot Page Fetcher
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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