Bot IP: 99.187.154.159

Name: Bot IP Lookup: 99.187.154.159 (Facebook Crawler)
Creator: Track-A-Bot

facebookexternalhit is the user agent for Facebook's web crawler, used to fetch and preview content when links are shared on Facebook platforms.

Unverified

Track-A-Bot Trust Score: 51/100

score

0255075100

Why Track-A-Bot rated this IP (tap to expand)

Identity

✅ Marked as bot traffic
✅ Bot name present
✅ User-agent matches bot name
ℹ️ No identity link/email in user-agent

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: 1
⏱️ Age: 0h

Penalties

✅ No major spoof pattern
✅ No fingerprint fields
✅ Cookies not enabled
✅ No connection type

Total visits: 1 First seen: Dec 12th, 2025 7:23 PM Last seen: Dec 12th, 2025 7:23 PM

Known Hostname(s)

99-187-154-159.lightspeed.gnvlsc.sbcglobal.net

Known User Agent(s)

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0

Known Accepted Language(s)

en-US,en;q=0.9

Known Accepted Encoding(s)

gzip, deflate, br

Common User-Agent Tokens

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

Token

Seen

First seen

Last seen

facebookexternalhit/1.1

34,305

3/16/24

12/12/25

facebookexternalhit/1.1 34,305 seen

First 3/16/24

Last 12/12/25

10_11_1

2,004

6/8/24

12/12/25

10_11_1 2,004 seen

First 6/8/24

Last 12/12/25

facebot

2,004

6/8/24

12/12/25

facebot 2,004 seen

First 6/8/24

Last 12/12/25

twitterbot/1.0

2,004

6/8/24

12/12/25

twitterbot/1.0 2,004 seen

First 6/8/24

Last 12/12/25

acebookexternalhit/1.0

12/12/25

acebookexternalhit/1.0 1 seen

First 12/12/25

Last 12/12/25

Identity Links

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

URL

Seen

First seen

Last seen

www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php

32,295

3/16/24

12/12/25

www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php 32,295 seen www.facebook.com

First 3/16/24

Last 12/12/25

faviconkit.com/robots

12/12/25

faviconkit.com/robots 2 seen faviconkit.com

First 12/12/25

Last 12/12/25

www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php),gzip(gfe

5/14/24

12/12/25

www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php),gzip(gfe 2 seen www.facebook.com

First 5/14/24

Last 12/12/25

This page provides a detailed lookup for the bot with the IP address of 99.187.154.159, 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.