What is Meta External Agent?
Meta-ExternalAgent is listed as a data collection crawler operated by Meta. Use this crawler profile to identify user-agent tokens, operator signals, platform hints, and recommended handling.
Meta External Agent
Meta · Data collection crawler
- Version
- 1.1
- First seen
- Sep 17, 2025
- Confidence
- Known user-agent token
Crawler tags
Directory facts
- AI model training
- Listed as training
- Acts on behalf of user
- No, autonomous
- Obeys directives
- Yes, listed as obeying robots.txt
What is Meta External Agent?
Meta-ExternalAgent is listed as a data collection crawler operated by Meta. Meta External Agent is likely used by Meta to collect or evaluate public web content for AI, language, or training systems.
Meta External Agent matched a known crawler token in the user-agent string, but this page alone does not prove IP ownership.
How to identify Meta External Agent in logs
Search server logs for Meta External Agent, Meta-ExternalAgent. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)
Use this as a web-crawler lookup reference for identifying how this user-agent presents itself in server logs. After you identify crawler traffic, run the WebMCP Compatibility Checker to confirm whether AI crawlers and agents can understand your site.
User-agent signals
- Product tokens
- meta-externalagent/1.1
- Contact
- None found
- Platform
- Unknown · Unknown
- Browser profile
- Unknown · Unknown
- Browser-like UA
- No
- HTTP library
- Unknown
- Spoof risk
- Medium
Questions answered by this crawler profile
What is Meta-ExternalAgent?
Meta-ExternalAgent is listed as a data collection crawler operated by Meta. Meta External Agent is likely used by Meta to collect or evaluate public web content for AI, language, or training systems.
Does Meta-ExternalAgent train AI models?
Meta-ExternalAgent is listed as being used to train AI or LLM systems.
Is Meta-ExternalAgent user-triggered?
Meta-ExternalAgent is listed as operating independently of a direct user action.
How do I identify Meta-ExternalAgent in logs?
Search server logs for Meta External Agent, Meta-ExternalAgent. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Does Meta-ExternalAgent respect robots.txt?
This directory entry lists the crawler as obeying robots.txt directives. Confirm behavior in your logs before relying on user-agent strings alone.