# meta-externalads

> Meta · ad-verification. Crawls the web to improve Meta's advertising and other business products.

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- **name:** meta-externalads
- **operator:** Meta
- **purpose:** ad-verification
- **ua_substring:** meta-externalads
- **robots_token:** meta-externalads
- **respects_robots:** yes
- **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:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **bot_type:** data-provider
- **bot_type_extension:** —
- **opt_out_mechanism:** robots.txt disallow (User-agent: meta-externalads)
- **published_ip_range_url:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **asn:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **reverse_dns_suffix:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **supports_web_bot_auth:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **signature_agent_domain:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **jwks_url:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **verification_methods:** user-agent-string
- **crawl_traffic_share:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **targeted_content_type:** HTML, text
- **documentation_url:** https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/
- **first_seen_date:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **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:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **status:** active
- **triples:** ["meta-externalads","operated_by","Meta"], ["meta-externalads","has_bot_type","data-provider"], ["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"}