Embedly

social-preview Embedly

Embedly web crawler for content embedding

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.26%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Embedly
2026-05-012026-06-040.35%

Technical details

Name
Embedly
Pattern
Embedly
Tags
social-preview
Reference
https://support.embed.ly/hc/en-us
Added
2016/04/25
Instances
3 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Embedly [email protected]
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Embedly/0.2; +http://support.embed.ly/)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Embedly/0.2; snap; +http://support.embed.ly/)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Embedly:

User-agent: Embedly Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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