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meta-externalfetcher
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A Meta fetcher that opens a specific page when a person requests or shares its link inside a Meta product.
When meta-externalfetcher shows up in your logs
Someone shared or asked for your link inside a Meta app and it was fetched.
User-triggered fetches, when an assistant opens a page to answer a person directly.
Allow or block it in robots.txt
A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.
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