Slackbot-LinkExpanding

Slack · Link preview fetchers · json

User-agent: Slackbot-LinkExpanding
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenSlackbot-LinkExpanding
User-agent containsSlackbot-LinkExpanding
OperatorSlack
CategoryLink preview fetchers
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify byno published verification method

What it is

Fetches a page to build the unfurl card when somebody pastes your link into Slack. One paste, one fetch.

What blocking it costs you

Your links appear in Slack as bare URLs. Inside working teams that quietly costs you clicks, and nothing is gained.

Full user-agent string

Slackbot-LinkExpanding 1.0 (+https://api.slack.com/robots)

Allow it instead

User-agent: Slackbot-LinkExpanding
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://api.slack.com/robots
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility