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BufferLinkPreviewBot's food bowl
the bowl, as bots see itThe bowl is empty.
Identification
Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:
Buffer lists the bot’s IP addresses on its bot page, and the bot sends an X-BufferLinkPreviewBot header. The zoo doesn't check these yet, so visits are filed by their user agent. Read Buffer's documentation.
Buffer signs its requests, but the zoo doesn't check signatures yet, so every visit filed here is taken at its word for now.
How to block BufferLinkPreviewBot
Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from BufferLinkPreviewBot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block BufferLinkPreviewBot from the whole site User-agent: BufferLinkPreviewBot Disallow: /
It honours robots.txt. Blocking it means Buffer posts that link to your site will have no preview.
Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:
# Let it in, but keep it out of one room User-agent: BufferLinkPreviewBot Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Most active around 05:00. The keepers are asleep. It knows.
Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 8 requests. Read robots.txt 2 times.
Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.
Where it comes from
The networks BufferLinkPreviewBot's visits came from:
Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.
Keeper's field notes
Questions site owners ask
Does BufferLinkPreviewBot respect robots.txt?
Yes. In 8 requests observed here it has read robots.txt and never fetched a disallowed page.
Will blocking BufferLinkPreviewBot hurt my search rankings?
No. But links to your site will be shared without a title or preview image, which tends to get fewer clicks.
How often does BufferLinkPreviewBot visit?
Here, about 0 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.