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Meta External Agent
Meta External Agent is Meta's crawler. This crawler collects page content used to train models.
Crawler facts
| Operator | Meta |
|---|---|
| User agent token | meta-externalagent |
| Traffic type | Training |
| Verification | User agent only |
| IP source | Meta publishes no IP list. |
What "verified" means for Meta External Agent
Meta publishes no IP list for Meta External Agent, so a request claiming this user agent can never be proven genuine. DataSaaS always records it as unverified.
Track it
Meta External Agent fetches raw HTML and never runs JavaScript, so no browser tag can see it. Install the DataSaaS server-side package to record every request and verify the ones that publish IP ranges.
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