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Bot IP: 69.63.189.43

Meta External Agent is a web crawler operated by Meta (formerly Facebook) to fetch and analyze external web content for its platforms and services.
Unverified
Track-A-Bot Trust Score: 61/100
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Why Track-A-Bot rated this IP (tap to expand)

Identity

  • ✅ Marked as bot traffic
  • ✅ Bot name present
  • ✅ User-agent matches bot name
  • ✅ User-agent includes identity link/email

Hostname

  • ✅ Hostname observed
  • ℹ️ Hostname does not resemble bot name
  • ℹ️ Hostname status not verified
  • ✅ No hostname mismatch flags

Behavior

  • ℹ️ No /robots.txt request observed
  • ✅ No referrer (typical crawler behavior)
  • ⚠️ Many non-200/304 responses
  • 📌 Visits: 2
  • ⏱️ Age: 0h

Penalties

  • ✅ No major spoof pattern
  • ✅ No fingerprint fields
  • ✅ Cookies not enabled
  • ✅ No connection type
Total visits: 14 First seen: Jun 10th, 2025 4:44 AM Last seen: Dec 12th, 2025 7:23 PM
Known Hostname(s)
fwdproxy-nha-043.fbsv.net
Known User Agent(s)
meta-webindexer/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)
Known Accepted Encoding(s)
deflate, gzip

Common User-Agent Tokens

These are identifiers found inside user-agent strings we observed for meta-externalagent.

Token
Seen
First seen
Last seen
meta-externalagent/1.1
44,389
7/20/24
12/12/25
meta-externalagent/1.1 44,389 seen
First 7/20/24
Last 12/12/25

Identity Links

These are URLs we observed in association with meta-externalagent (often used as an identity, help, or policy link).

URL
Seen
First seen
Last seen
First 7/20/24
Last 12/12/25

This page provides a detailed lookup for the bot with the IP address of 69.63.189.43, based on real-world traffic observed across websites using Track-A-Bot software. Use this information to verify whether activity from this IP belongs to a legitimate search engine crawler, or to analyze bot behavior on your website.