LinkPreview
LinkPreview link preview generator
About this crawler
LinkPreview is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern LinkPreview\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block LinkPreview traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- LinkPreview
- Pattern
LinkPreview\/- Tags
- social-preview
- Reference
- http://linkpreview.net
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
LinkPreview/1.5 (http://linkpreview.net)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow LinkPreview:
User-agent: LinkPreview
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} LinkPreview\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "LinkPreview\\/") {
return 403;
}
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