Who operates Arena Bot?

Arena Bot is operated by Arena.im. It functions as Arena.im's link preview bot.

Does Arena Bot respect robots.txt?

Arena.im has not published a robots.txt commitment for Arena Bot. Treat its behavior as unconfirmed and watch your access logs to see whether your rules are honored.

Should I block Arena Bot?

Usually no. Blocking Arena Bot means links to your pages lose their preview cards, which typically reduces how many people click through.

Arena Bot - What It Is & How to Handle It

What is Arena Bot?

Arena Bot is Arena.im's link preview bot. Link preview bot for Arena.im's live engagement platform. Fetches page previews when URLs are shared in Arena's live chat, live blog, and community tools.

Arena Bot controls how your links look when they are shared. Rich previews drive clicks across social and messaging platforms, and clean preview metadata also helps AI systems parse your pages. Allowing it keeps your content looking polished wherever it appears.

Like any automated client, Arena Bot consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

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How to handle Arena Bot

You will usually want Arena Bot allowed so shared links render rich previews. Block it only if you do not want preview cards generated for your pages.

To control Arena Bot, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: ArenaBot
Disallow: /

Arena.im does not publish a robots.txt commitment for Arena Bot, so confirm how it behaves by watching your access logs.

Examples

When a user shares a link, Arena Bot fetches the page's Open Graph tags to build a rich preview card.
A team adds Open Graph and image metadata so Arena Bot renders an attractive preview for shared URLs.