meta-externalagent
by Meta
Collects pages in bulk to train a model, unconnected to any individual user's question.
Meta crawler collecting public content to train its AI models and improve Meta products.
What it usually means
Meta crawled this page as potential training data for its Llama models and AI products.
How to identify it
meta-externalagent User-agent: meta-externalagent How it's verified
57.141.4.0/24157.240.238.0/2457.144.114.0/2357.145.8.0/232a03:2880:f013::/48157.240.12.0/24157.240.14.0/242a03:2880:f16d::/4857.144.178.0/232a03:2880:f158::/48 1 IP source configured
Sources
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