FacebookBot

Meta · AI training crawlers · json

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenFacebookBot
User-agent containsFacebookBot
OperatorMeta
CategoryAI training crawlers
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify byno published verification method

What it is

Meta's older speech- and language-corpus crawler, largely superseded by meta-externalagent but still listed as a valid robots token.

What blocking it costs you

Negligible today. Keep the rule; expect little traffic.

Full user-agent string

FacebookBot/1.0 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)

Allow it instead

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-ai-training · block-all-ai · maximum-ai-visibility