Bluesky Link Preview Service

Review

Bluesky Link Preview Service is a link preview bot from Bluesky used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews.

User-Agent

Bluesky

User-agent strings are identity signals, not proof of identity. Use Edge to compare the user-agent with IP, datacenter, behavior, path, and request history.

Verification and Detection

Verification method: Verify Bluesky Link Preview Service by matching `Bluesky` to Bluesky evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.

Bluesky Link Preview Service traffic is primarily detected by the `Bluesky` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Bluesky/`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Bluesky/`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Bluesky infrastructure before trusting the traffic.

Handling Guidance

Use this public record as identity context, then verify source, behavior, and site impact inside Edge before creating rules.

Bluesky Link Preview Service is used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews, and page metadata fetching.

Record Details

Aliases: Bluesky/
Type: preview
Operator: Bluesky
Family: Bluesky
Kind: Preview
Purpose: Preview
Identity: Verified Bot
Detection confidence: Medium
Spoofing risk: Bluesky Link Preview Service Has Medium Spoofing Risk Because User Agent Strings Can Be Copied; Pair The Match With DNS, IP, Behavior, Or Operator Evidence.
Status: Active
Respects robots.txt: Unknown
Last verified: 2026 04 01

Robots.txt Snippet

User-agent: Bluesky
Disallow: /

Traffic Matching

Live IP verification, reverse DNS, ASN and datacenter correlation, request history, connected-domain matches, behavioral context, and rule creation are kept inside Botcrawl Edge.

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