OrloLinkPreview is a bot in the link preview bots category, operated by Orlo.
The Orlo Link Preview bot is used by the Orlo social media management platform. It fetches previews of links that are scheduled to be published in social media posts.
Link preview bots fetch a page when someone shares its URL in a chat app or social network, to build the preview card. Blocking them breaks your link previews, so keep them allowed but leave them out of analytics and ad requests.
OrloLinkPreview identifies itself with this user agent string:
Orlo-LinkPreview/1.0Anyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
We have not confirmed whether OrloLinkPreview follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: Orlo-LinkPreview Disallow: /
User-agent: Orlo-LinkPreview Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: Orlo-LinkPreview Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: Orlo-LinkPreview Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: Orlo-LinkPreview group, OrloLinkPreview ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.Orlo-LinkPreview from OrloLinkPreview's user agent; check Orlo's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
OrloLinkPreview fetches pages when your links are shared or syndicated. Keep it allowed so previews and feeds work, but leave it out of page views and ad requests.
Transfon Security for publishersWhen ads or posts are shared, OrloLinkPreview fetches the landing page. Those hits are not clicks, so keep them out of campaign reports.
Transfon Security for advertisersProduct links shared in chats and feeds are fetched by OrloLinkPreview. Keep it allowed so previews show the right image and price.
Transfon Security for e-commerceAllow OrloLinkPreview on public pages so shared links preview well, and keep it off the app.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows OrloLinkPreview by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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OrloLinkPreview is a bot in the link preview bots category, operated by Orlo. The Orlo Link Preview bot is used by the Orlo social media management platform. It fetches previews of links that are scheduled to be published in social media posts.
We have not confirmed whether OrloLinkPreview follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.
Add "User-agent: Orlo-LinkPreview" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "Orlo-LinkPreview/" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so OrloLinkPreview may not follow it, and anyone can send OrloLinkPreview's user agent, so a fake OrloLinkPreview ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Link preview bots fetch a page when someone shares its URL in a chat app or social network, to build the preview card. Blocking them breaks your link previews, so keep them allowed but leave them out of analytics and ad requests.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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