Bot intelligence record

Facebook Webhooks

Usually allow

Use the facebook-webhooks identifier to separate Meta webhook or service callback traffic from normal visitor requests in server logs.

Webhook Verified Bot Confidence: Medium Verified: Yes robots.txt: Unknown
Operator
Meta
Family
Meta
Type
Webhook
Source type
Verified Directory
Last checked
2026-05-20

User-Agent Pattern

Meta
facebook-webhooks
Verification note

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

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User-agent: facebook-webhooks
Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

Depends

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.

Webhook notifications, callbacks, payment events, or service-to-service integration requests.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
Meta
Family
Meta
Type
Webhook
Purpose
Webhook
Identity type
Verified Bot
Confidence
Medium
Last verified
2026-04-19
Last checked
2026-05-20
Source type
Verified Directory
Verification
Public verified bot directory listing
Spoofing risk
Medium

Notes

Facebook Webhooks is listed in the Botcrawl directory as a webhook callback service from Meta. The primary identifier for log review is facebook-webhooks.

Identification

  • User-agent pattern: facebook-webhooks
  • Family: Meta
  • Type: Webhook
  • Kind: Webhook

Common use

Webhook notifications, callbacks, payment events, or service-to-service integration requests.

Verification and handling

Confirm the user-agent against server logs and use published operator documentation, IP ranges, reverse DNS, or other trust signals when available.

Directory guidance marks the risk level as Safe and the blocking decision as Depends. Do not rely on the user-agent string alone because user-agent strings can be copied or spoofed.

Robots.txt handling: Unknown.

Evidence and Source

  • Public verified bot directory listing
  • Match `facebook-webhooks` as a case-insensitive substring in HTTP user-agent logs. Review bot_aliases for alternate names or product labels. Do not treat a user-agent match alone as proof of identity for allow-listing.
  • Webhook notifications, callbacks, payment events, or service-to-service integration requests.
  • Medium

https://bots.fyi/d/facebook-webhooks

Same family: Meta

meta-externalfetcher Neutral

Meta-ExternalFetcher

Crawler receives individual links at the user's initiative to support certain product features.

Operator and family: Meta Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
meta-externalads/1.1 Neutral

Meta-ExternalAds

The Meta-ExternalAds crawler crawls the web for use cases such as improving advertising and other business-related products and services.

Operator and family: Meta Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Verified Bot
meta-webindexer/1.1 Neutral

Meta-WebIndexer

Meta-WebIndexer is a search crawler from Meta used for search indexing, page discovery, or content rendering.

Operator and family: Meta Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
meta-externalagent Neutral

Meta-ExternalAgent

Use cases such as training AI models or improving products by indexing content directly.

Operator and family: Meta Type: Search Purpose: Ai Training
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Verified Bot

Same operator: Meta

FacebookBot Neutral

FacebookBot

FacebookBot is a search crawler from Meta used for search indexing, page discovery, or content rendering.

Operator and family: Meta Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Verified Bot
facebookexternalhit Neutral

FacebookExternalHit

The primary purpose of FacebookExternalHit is to crawl the content of an app or website that was shared on one of Meta’s family of apps, such as Facebook, Instagram, or Messenger. The link.

Operator and family: Meta Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot

Similar purpose: Webhook

Zapier Safe

Zapier

Zapier is a webhook callback service from Zapier Inc. used for service notifications, callbacks, or integration events.

Operator and family: Zapier Inc. Type: Webhook
Verified robots.txt: No Block: No Verified Bot
Zendesk Webhook Safe

Zendesk Webhook

Webhooks for development of Zendesk ticketing system and apps.

Operator and family: Zendesk Type: Webhook
Verified robots.txt: No Block: No Verified Bot
YokoyGroupAG Safe

Yokoy Group Webhooks

Yokoy is a spend management SAAS solution. Webhooks generate requests to book expenses or invoices to customer's ERP system whenever the processing and approval process has been completed.

Operator and family: Yokoy Group AG Type: Webhook
Verified robots.txt: No Block: No Verified Bot
Indy Library Safe

Worldline Bot

Worldline Bot is a webhook callback service from Worldline used for service notifications, callbacks, or integration events.

Operator and family: Worldline Type: Webhook
Verified robots.txt: No Block: No Verified Bot

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