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Shortwave Image Fetcher

Name: Shortwave Image Fetcher
Author: Shortwave Communications Inc.

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An email client that proxies all images found in HTML emails from to protect end customer's IP address and connection private Operated by Shortwave Communications Inc..

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What is Shortwave Image Fetcher?

Shortwave Image Fetcher is a web crawler operated by Shortwave Communications Inc.. An email client that proxies all images found in HTML emails from to protect end customer's IP address and connection private

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

Identification

Bot name

Shortwave Image Fetcher

Operator

Shortwave Communications Inc.

Why it crawls your site

Shortwave Image Fetcher crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by Shortwave Communications Inc. 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 Shortwave Image Fetcher

Block it

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

# Allow Shortwave Image Fetcher full access
User-agent: Shortwave Image Fetcher
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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