Opengraph Bot
recommended: allow
Operated by Opengraph
social media
Our API is used by mostly consumer facing products to preview links when sharing them on their platforms. For example, how when a link is shared on Facebook or Slack, those platforms provide a description/title/image to make the content more enticing.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
OpenGraph.io/
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Opengraph Bot:
Allow full access
User-agent: OpenGraph.io/
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: OpenGraph.io/
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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