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  ],
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  },
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  },
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      "type": "cidr_feed",
      "url": "https://scraper.buffer.com/about/bots/link-preview-bot.json",
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      "selector": "ipAddresses"
    }
  ],
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  "tier_label": "Fully verifiable",
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