About this bot
Vercel Screenshot Bot is a preview associated with Vercel and used for preview.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is vercel-screenshot-bot.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with Medium confidence. Identity type: official documented.
robots.txt behavior is currently unconfirmed. Do not assume robots.txt alone will control this traffic.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling is to evaluate the request context before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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vercel-screenshot-bot - Also known as
- Vercel Screenshot Bot
Details
- Kind
- Screenshot fetcher
- Family
- Vercel
- Purpose
- Screenshot rendering
- Common Use
- Vercel Screenshot Bot is used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews, and page metadata fetching.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `vercel-screenshot-bot` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate it with independent network, DNS, cryptographic, or request-context signals when stronger authentication is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `vercel-screenshot-bot` User-Agent token and consider recorded aliases where applicable. A User-Agent match identifies a claim, not authenticated origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Use server-side controls if restriction is required.