BotDB Record
Discourse Forum Onebox
Review firstDiscourse Forum Onebox is a link preview bot from Discourse used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews; it appears in server logs as `Discourse Forum Onebox`.
- Operator
- Discourse
- Family
- Discourse
- Type
- Link Preview Bot
- Source type
- Observed
- Last checked
- 2026-06-22
User-Agent Signal
DiscourseDiscourse Forum Onebox
User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.
Robots.txt Snippet
Click snippet to copyUser-agent: Discourse Forum Onebox
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Handling Guidance
AllowUse this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.
Discourse Forum Onebox is used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews, and page metadata fetching.
Intelligence Details
BotDB fields- Operator
- Discourse
- Family
- Discourse
- Type
- Link Preview Bot
- Purpose
- Link Preview Fetching
- Identity type
- Documented
- Confidence
- Medium
- Last verified
- 2026-06-22
- Last checked
- 2026-06-22
- Source type
- Observed
- Verification
- Verify Discourse Forum Onebox by matching `Discourse Forum Onebox` to Discourse evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Spoofing risk
- Discourse Forum Onebox has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
Notes
- Discourse Forum Onebox is a link preview bot from Discourse used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews, and page metadata fetching.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
Discourse Forum Onebox. - Discourse Forum Onebox is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Documented, and the evidence basis is observed traffic patterns and user-agent evidence.
- Discourse Forum Onebox does not have confirmed robots.txt behavior in the available public evidence.
- Discourse Forum Onebox can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Evidence and Source
- Verify Discourse Forum Onebox by matching `Discourse Forum Onebox` to Discourse evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Discourse Forum Onebox traffic is primarily detected by the `Discourse Forum Onebox` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Discourse infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Discourse Forum Onebox is used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews, and page metadata fetching.
- Discourse Forum Onebox has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
Use in Botcrawl Edge
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