Directory/Categories/AI Assistant/Meta-ExternalTest

Meta-ExternalTest

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Meta bot used to test external integrations. Operated by Meta.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

AI Assistant

Identification

Bot name

Meta-ExternalTest

Operator

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

Some reports found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

One or two isolated anecdotes from individual site owners

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Block or allow Meta-ExternalTest

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for meta-externaltest/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-ExternalTest from crawling your entire site
User-agent: meta-externaltest/1\.1
Disallow: /

# Allow Meta-ExternalTest full access
User-agent: meta-externaltest/1\.1
Allow: /