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Opengraph Bot

Name: Opengraph Bot
Author: Opengraph

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Our API is used by mostly consumer facing products to preview links when sharing them on their platforms. For example, how when a link is shared on Facebook or Slack, those platforms provide a description/title/image to make the content more enticing. Operated by Opengraph.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Page Preview

What is Opengraph Bot?

Opengraph Bot is a web crawler operated by Opengraph. Our API is used by mostly consumer facing products to preview links when sharing them on their platforms. For example, how when a link is shared on Facebook or Slack, those platforms provide a description/title/image to make the content more enticing.

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

Identification

Bot name

Opengraph Bot

Operator

Opengraph

Why it crawls your site

Opengraph Bot crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by Opengraph 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 Opengraph Bot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for OpenGraph.io/ 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 Opengraph Bot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: OpenGraph.io/
Disallow: /

# Allow Opengraph Bot full access
User-agent: OpenGraph.io/
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows OpenGraph.io/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Opengraph's documentation.