Telegram Bot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTTelegramBot crawls websites to render a link preview when people send a message containing a URL in the Telegram messaging service. Operated by Telegram.
What is Telegram Bot?
Telegram Bot is a web crawler operated by Telegram. TelegramBot crawls websites to render a link preview when people send a message containing a URL in the Telegram messaging service.
Identification
TelegramBotWhy it crawls your site
Telegram Bot crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by Telegram 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 Telegram Bot
Add a Disallow rule for TelegramBot 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 Telegram Bot from crawling your entire site User-agent: TelegramBot Disallow: / # Allow Telegram Bot full access User-agent: TelegramBot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows TelegramBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Telegram's documentation.
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