Meta-ExternalFetcher

Real-time fetch when Meta AI users open links

Should you block it?

Safe to allow

Meta-ExternalFetcher fetches a page in real time when a Meta user opens a link to your site inside a conversation. Blocking it breaks that click-through experience (users hit an error), but it does not affect indexing, citations or training.

How to allow it in robots.txt

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

How to block it

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

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