Link previewers
WhatsApp's fetcher that GETs a shared page to build a link preview from Open Graph tags; UA is WhatsApp/2.x.x.x with A/I/N platform suffix.
Dossier
- Operator
- Meta (WhatsApp)
- Documentation
- developers.facebook.com
- robots.txt token
WhatsApp- Feeds
- link preview
- Follows robots.txt
- Not documentedMeta's link-preview doc does not mention robots.txt.
- How to verify
- No published method
- Names in our logs
whatsapp- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 31
- Days active
- 2 / 93
- First seen
- 11 Sept 2026
- Last seen
- 14 Sept 2026
Dormantother_bot
Identity check claimed vs verified
- No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- developers.facebook.comdevelopers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/link-previews
- knownagents.comknownagents.com/agents/whatsapp