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Meta-ExternalAgent

Meta-ExternalAgent is Meta's dedicated crawler for ingesting public web data to train Meta Llama foundation models and improve Meta AI across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook.

Technical Specifications

User-Agent Tokenmeta-externalagent
Operator / OwnerMeta AI
Primary PurposeMeta Llama model training & AI feature enhancement
SEO ImpactNo SEO Impact
Respects robots.txtStandard Compliant (RFC 9309)
Reverse DNS Hostnamemeta.com
Official DocumentationOperator Docs

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I block Meta AI training crawler?

User-agent: meta-externalagent Disallow: /

How to Allow Meta-ExternalAgentrobots.txt

Ensure this bot can index your public pages for citations.

# Allow Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /
How to Block Meta-ExternalAgentrobots.txt

Prevent this bot from accessing any content on your domain.

# Block Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /
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