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Facebook Webhooks

Facebook's webhook service that delivers real-time event notifications for Meta platform events and changes.
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What is Facebook Webhooks?

Facebook Webhooks is Facebook's webhook service. Facebook's webhook service that delivers real-time event notifications for Meta platform events and changes.

Facebook Webhooks is part of an event-delivery pipeline rather than an AI crawler, so it has little direct bearing on AI search. Knowing its signature still helps you separate legitimate callbacks from unexpected automated traffic in your logs.

Like any automated client, Facebook Webhooks 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 Facebook Webhooks

Whether to allow Facebook Webhooks depends on whether you rely on the service behind it. Use a robots.txt rule to allow or disallow it.

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

User-agent: FacebookWebhooks
Disallow: /

Replace the user-agent token above with the exact string Facebook Webhooks sends, check the operator's documentation, since display names and user-agent tokens can differ.

Facebook Webhooks generally honors robots.txt directives.

Examples

  • Facebook Webhooks delivers a real-time callback to a configured endpoint when a tracked event occurs.
  • An engineer verifies the source of incoming Facebook Webhooks requests before processing the payload.

Frequently asked questions about Facebook Webhooks

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Facebook Webhooks is operated by Facebook. It functions as Facebook's webhook service.

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