Directory / Social previews

Redditbot

Listed only

Reddit's on-demand fetcher that retrieves a shared URL's metadata to build the link preview shown on a post. Reddit's robots.txt now disallows all crawling and documents no user agent, IP list, or verification method for this fetcher.

Operated by Reddit · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexredditbot/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; redditbot/1.0; +http://www.reddit.com/feedback)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Operator publishes no verification path

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt

  • 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.