Is Meta-ExternalAgent blocked on your site?
Enter a domain to see whether its robots.txt lets GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler, or any of 14 other AI crawlers read the homepage.
Ask about another crawler:
- OAI-SearchBot
- ChatGPT-User
- GPTBot
- Claude-SearchBot
- Claude-User
- ClaudeBot
- PerplexityBot
- Perplexity-User
- Google-Extended
- Applebot-Extended
- Amazonbot
- DuckAssistBot
- Meta-ExternalAgent
- CCBot
- Bytespider
About Meta-ExternalAgent
Meta says it crawls the web for uses such as training foundation AI models and improving products by indexing content directly. Read the operator's documentation.
How to block or allow it
robots.txt rules are read per crawler: Meta-ExternalAgent follows a group that names it, or else the User-agent: * group. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /The AI crawler robots.txt generator makes these lines for any mix of crawlers. The check reads only your homepage path, robots.txt, llms.txt and a HEAD of llms-full.txt; see exactly what is fetched.