Meta External Agent
VerifiableMeta's crawler for AI training data and content indexing across Meta products. Verified by ASN lookup (AS32934); Meta publishes no IP feed.
Operated by Meta · Official documentation
User agents
Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.
- meta-externalagent/\d
- meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)
How to verify
Look up the announced ranges by ASN
whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS32934' | grep routeGood Bot Practices scorecard
- Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
- Verifiable
Verifiable
- Respects robots.txt
Honors robots.txt (token: meta-externalagent)
- Behaves
Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset
- Reachable operator
Operator and documentation published
Measured against the Good Bot Practices.