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meta-externalagent

AI Training Crawler Meta robots.txt behaviour unknown

Meta external agent web crawler bot

User-Agent

meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)

Allow meta-externalagent in robots.txt

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

Block meta-externalagent in robots.txt

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

Blocking stops your content being used for model training. It does not remove you from AI search results — that's governed by separate search/assistant bots.

Official documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers

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