Social Bot · Crawler User-Agents
The representative User-Agents that bots and crawlers in the Social category use in their actual requests.
| facebookexternalhit | facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php) |
|---|---|
| Twitterbot | Twitterbot/1.0 |
| Slackbot | Slackbot-LinkExpanding 1.0 (+https://api.slack.com/robots) |
| Discordbot | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Discordbot/2.0; +https://discordapp.com) |
| LinkedInBot | LinkedInBot/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla/5.0; Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1 +http://www.linkedin.com) |
WhatsApp/2.23.20.0 A |
Bot User-Agents can change over time and can also be forged. Don't judge access control by the UA string alone — combine it with reverse DNS lookups or verification against official IP ranges.