SnapURLPreview
Social platform URL preview and metadata fetcher
About this crawler
SnapURLPreview is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern SnapURLPreview\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block SnapURLPreview traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- SnapURLPreview
- Pattern
SnapURLPreview\/- Tags
- social-preview
- Reference
- https://business.snapchat.com/legal/snapchat-automated-crawler
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SnapURLPreview/1.0; +https://www.snapchat.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow SnapURLPreview:
User-agent: SnapURLPreview
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SnapURLPreview\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "SnapURLPreview\\/") {
return 403;
}
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