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Meta-ExternalAgent

Name: Meta-ExternalAgent
Author: Meta

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Use cases such as training AI models or improving products by indexing content directly. Operated by Meta.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

AI Crawler

What is Meta-ExternalAgent?

Meta-ExternalAgent is a web crawler operated by Meta. Use cases such as training AI models or improving products by indexing content directly. It is part of the growing wave of AI-powered crawlers that collect web data for training and improving AI models.

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

Identification

Bot name

Meta-ExternalAgent

Operator

Why it crawls your site

Meta-ExternalAgent crawls websites to collect and process web content for AI model training and improvement. It is operated by Meta as part of their AI and machine learning infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Meta-ExternalAgent

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for meta-externalagent 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-ExternalAgent from crawling your entire site
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# Allow Meta-ExternalAgent full access
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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