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Meta-ExternalAgent

Updated 2026-05-17

Meta-ExternalAgent is Meta's newer web crawler for Llama training and Meta AI features. Distinct from Meta's older facebookexternalhit (which fetches link previews for Facebook/Instagram), Meta-ExternalAgent is specifically for AI corpus collection.

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