What is Acebookexternalhit?

Facebook External Hit is the user agent employed by Facebook to retrieve and analyze web pages that are shared on its platform. When a user posts a link on Facebook, this crawler visits the linked page to extract metadata, images, and other relevant information to generate a preview (such as a thumbnail, title, and description) that appears in the user's feed. The crawler identifies itself with user agent strings containing 'facebookexternalhit'. Webmasters can use this identifier to tailor content or control access for Facebook's crawler, for example, by using the robots.txt file or Open Graph meta tags to influence how content is displayed on Facebook. This bot does not index content for search but is focused on enhancing the sharing experience within Facebook.

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