Meta

About

Meta is a social networking company that builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. Popular products inclide Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Detail

Website

https://meta.com/

Agents

AI Assistants

meta-externalfetcher

meta-externalfetcher is used by Meta to perform user-initiated fetches of individual links from AI assistant product functions.

Fetches website content in response to a user prompt, to include in an AI-generated answer

AI Data Scrapers

FacebookBot is a web crawler used by Meta to download training data for its AI speech recognition technology.

AI Data Scraper

Downloads website content to include in datasets used for training AI models such as LLMs

meta-externalagent

meta-externalagent crawls web content for training AI models and improving Meta's products by indexing content directly across the internet.

AI Data Scraper

Downloads website content to include in datasets used for training AI models such as LLMs

AI Search Crawlers

meta-webindexer

meta-webindexer is Meta's web crawler that browses the internet to improve search results for Meta AI users. It analyzes online content to make Meta AI's responses more relevant and accurate, allowing proper citation and linking back to source content.

AI Search Crawler

Indexes website content to possibly include as citations in AI-powered search results

Fetchers

facebook is a fetcher operated by Meta. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please let us know.

Retrieves web page metadata to power app features like link previews or feeds

facebookexternalhit

facebookexternalhit is Meta's web crawler that fetches content from apps or websites shared on Facebook, Instagram, or Messenger to gather, cache, and display information like titles, descriptions, and thumbnail images.

Retrieves web page metadata to power app features like link previews or feeds

WhatsApp is a fetcher operated by Meta. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please let us know.

Retrieves web page metadata to power app features like link previews or feeds

Intelligence Gatherers

meta-externalads

meta-externalads is a web crawler operated by Meta that scans websites to gather information about content that may be shared or advertised on Facebook's platform. The bot helps Meta understand external web content, optimize ad delivery, and manage advertisements across their social media properties.

Intelligence Gatherer

Analyzes web content for brand safety, competitive insights, and ad targeting