TelegramBot
Fetches link previews (and Instant View versions) for URLs shared in Telegram chats.
| robots.txt token | TelegramBot |
| Respects robots.txt | Treats shares as user-triggered fetches |
| Verification | Limited public documentation |
| Our recommendation | Allow — Preview cards in a chat app with a billion users — allow. |
Block TelegramBot with robots.txt
User-agent: TelegramBot
Disallow: /robots.txt is a request, not a wall — requests claiming to be TelegramBot from unverified networks should be treated as bad bots. How to verify crawlers by network →
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