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Meta-ExternalAds

Name: Meta-ExternalAds
Author: Meta

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

The Meta-ExternalAds crawler crawls the web for use cases such as improving advertising and other business-related products and services. Operated by Meta.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Advertising & Marketing

What is Meta-ExternalAds?

Meta-ExternalAds is a web crawler operated by Meta. The Meta-ExternalAds crawler crawls the web for use cases such as improving advertising and other business-related products and services.

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

Identification

Bot name

Meta-ExternalAds

Operator

Why it crawls your site

Meta-ExternalAds crawls websites to collect data for advertising and marketing purposes. It is operated by Meta as part of their advertising infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Meta-ExternalAds

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for meta-externalads/1.1 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 Meta-ExternalAds from crawling your entire site
User-agent: meta-externalads/1.1
Disallow: /

# Allow Meta-ExternalAds full access
User-agent: meta-externalads/1.1
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows meta-externalads/1.1. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Meta's documentation.