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meta-externalfetcher

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The Meta-ExternalFetcher crawler performs user-initiated fetches of individual links to support specific product functions. Because the fetch was initiated by a user, this crawler may bypass robots.txt rules.

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User Initiated

meta-externalfetcher vs Googlebot Traffic

We're using Googlebot as a comparison baseline for a major internet bot. This chart shows meta-externalfetcher traffic as a percentage of verified Googlebot traffic.