Meta · Meta AI

FacebookBot

Collects pages to train Meta’s AI models. Here is how to recognise it, verify it, and allow or block it.

Company: Meta
Product: Meta AI
Why it visits: Collecting for AI training
How to verify: Name only
User-agent contains: FacebookBot

How to tell a real FacebookBot from a fake

Meta publishes no IP list and no DNS names for FacebookBot, so a visit can’t be proven real. Anyone can put “FacebookBot” in a user-agent. Treat it as unverified, and watch how much it crawls.

Check a FacebookBot visit

Allow or block FacebookBot in robots.txt

Block it everywhere:

User-agent: FacebookBot Disallow: /

Allow it everywhere:

User-agent: FacebookBot Allow: /

Fake bots ignore robots.txt: block them by address in your firewall instead.