CF
cf-facebook
CloudFlare Facebook SDK
About this crawler
cf-facebook is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern cf-facebook in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block cf-facebook traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- cf-facebook
- Pattern
cf-facebook- Tags
- http-library
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
cf-facebook/6.8.48 Node.js/v6.11.1
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow cf-facebook:
User-agent: cf-facebook
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} cf-facebook [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "cf-facebook") {
return 403;
}
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