Slackbot

Slackbot is assigned to the Preview category by BotScope. Detection is based on the user-agent string. Current pattern:

Slackbot

Link preview bots are triggered when a human shares your link in a messaging app or platform. They fetch Open Graph and Twitter Card meta tags to render the preview. The IP belongs to a real user — BotScope therefore hashes it via SHA-256.

Once Slackbot shows up in your logs, BotScope lets you analyze its crawl paths, status codes, IP distribution and temporal activity — by hour, day or week.

robots.txt directive for Slackbot

If you don't want Slackbot to crawl your site, add the following block to your /robots.txt. This works only for bots that honour robots.txt — malicious crawlers ignore it.

User-agent: Slackbot
Disallow: /

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