OTHER AGENTS · META
Meta-ExternalAds
Crawls for Meta's advertising products. Meta publishes no IP list or DNS check for it.
- Follows robots.txt
- Cannot be verified
- Docs checked 28 Oct 2026
- UnverifiedIdentityNo published check
- Obeysrobots.txtFollows robots.txt
- PurposeAdvertisingNot an AI product
- Tokenmeta-externaladsUse it in a User-agent line
robots.txt
The operator documents that this bot follows robots.txt rules.
Block Meta-ExternalAds
User-agent: meta-externalads
Disallow: /Allow Meta-ExternalAds
User-agent: meta-externalads
Allow: /Quick facts
- robots.txt token
meta-externalads- User agent contains
- meta-externalads
- Operator
- Meta
- Category
- Other agents
- Purpose
- Advertising
- robots.txt
- Follows robots.txt
- Verification
- Cannot be verified
- Documentation
- developers.facebook.com · checked 28 Oct 2026
If you block it
Ad systems cannot check your landing pages, which can affect ads that point to your site.
Check a visit is real
- No published way to check it. A request using this name is only a claim.
Where this comes from
The same registry NdovuSEOLabs uses to classify crawler traffic in your server and CDN logs, built from the operator’s own documentation.
Registry version 2026-10-29.1
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