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Meta Web Indexer
Meta Web Indexer is Meta's crawler. This crawler fetches pages to build a search or answer index.
Crawler facts
| Operator | Meta |
|---|---|
| User agent token | meta-webindexer |
| Traffic type | Search index |
| Verification | User agent only |
| IP source | Meta publishes no IP list. |
What "verified" means for Meta Web Indexer
Meta publishes no IP list for Meta Web Indexer, so a request claiming this user agent can never be proven genuine. DataSaaS always records it as unverified.
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Meta Web Indexer 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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