BufferLinkPreviewBot

social-preview BufferLinkPreviewBot

Buffer social media link preview bot

About this crawler

BufferLinkPreviewBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern BufferLinkPreviewBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block BufferLinkPreviewBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

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Technical details

Name
BufferLinkPreviewBot
Pattern
BufferLinkPreviewBot
Tags
social-preview
Reference
https://scraper.buffer.com/about/bots/link-preview-bot
Added
2026/04/26
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

BufferLinkPreviewBot/1.0 (+https://scraper.buffer.com/about/bots/link-preview-bot)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow BufferLinkPreviewBot:

User-agent: BufferLinkPreviewBot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} BufferLinkPreviewBot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "BufferLinkPreviewBot") { return 403; }
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