Meta AI Integration
Meta External Agent Access Checker
Meta's crawler bot used to retrieve public web page content for Meta AI integrations, including searches on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Verify Robots.txt blocks for Meta External Agent
Enter your domain to run a live AI crawl check auditing user agent directives.
Official User-Agent String
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MetaExternalAgent/1.1; +http://www.meta.com/bot.html)Verification Directives
To Block Crawler (Disallow)
User-agent: MetaExternalAgent Disallow: /
To Allow Crawler (Allow)
User-agent: MetaExternalAgent Allow: /
Meta External Agent Search Optimization FAQs
Q: What is Meta External Agent?
It is the web crawler Meta uses to fetch real-time public data to generate answers inside Meta AI conversation modules.
Q: Why allow Meta External Agent?
Allowing Meta AI enables your site's products and guides to be referenced inside search responses across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook chats.