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    "name": "meta-externalads",
    "operator": "Meta",
    "purpose": "ad-verification",
    "ua_substring": "meta-externalads",
    "robots_token": "meta-externalads",
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    "verify": "Meta-documented crawler; match the UA and a Meta-owned IP (see documentation_url).",
    "notes": "Crawls the web to improve Meta's advertising and other business products.",
    "canonical_name": "meta-externalads",
    "user_agent_token": "meta-externalads",
    "ua_full": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/",
      "note": "exact full UA string not quoted verbatim in the source"
    },
    "bot_type": "data-provider",
    "bot_type_extension": null,
    "opt_out_mechanism": "robots.txt disallow (User-agent: meta-externalads)",
    "published_ip_range_url": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/",
      "note": "no standalone IP-range file confirmed; operator doc is the authoritative reference"
    },
    "asn": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/"
    },
    "reverse_dns_suffix": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/"
    },
    "supports_web_bot_auth": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/"
    },
    "signature_agent_domain": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/"
    },
    "jwks_url": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/"
    },
    "verification_methods": [
      "user-agent-string"
    ],
    "crawl_traffic_share": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots",
      "note": "not among the figures supplied in research"
    },
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    "documentation_url": "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/",
    "first_seen_date": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/"
    },
    "last_verified_date": "2026-07-06",
    "block_vs_allow_recommendation": "conditional — advertising and business use; block if you do not want your content used for Meta ad products.",
    "citation_referral_value": "none (advertising data, not referral)",
    "cloudflare_verified_category": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots"
    },
    "status": "active",
    "triples": [
      [
        "meta-externalads",
        "operated_by",
        "Meta"
      ],
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        "meta-externalads",
        "has_bot_type",
        "data-provider"
      ],
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        "meta-externalads",
        "verified_via",
        "user-agent-string"
      ]
    ],
    "attribute_sources": [
      {
        "claims": [
          "user_agent_token",
          "robots_token"
        ],
        "source": "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/",
        "last_verified": "2026-07-06"
      },
      {
        "claims": [
          "operator",
          "purpose",
          "documentation_url",
          "respects_robots"
        ],
        "source": "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/",
        "last_verified": "2026-07-06"
      }
    ]
  }
}