WebsiteMetadataRetriever is the website metadata fetcher operated by Asana, Inc. for its work management platform. It requests a page when an Asana user adds or pastes a link into a task, project or comment, and reads the title, description and image so Asana can render a preview of that link inside the product. Asana publishes a network allowlisting page covering the addresses customers connect to, but nothing that identifies this outbound fetcher, and none of the source addresses observed in our own traffic carry a reverse DNS record, so its requests cannot be verified by address or hostname. Third party catalogues report that it does not consult robots.txt.

At a glance

Operator: Asana, Inc.
Type: Preview

How Centinel checks it

User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.

Asana Website Metadata Retriever publishes nothing Centinel can check a source against, so a match reports the name and leaves the source unconfirmed. The match tokens, verification domains, and address feeds are not published here.

Allowing or blocking it

The crawler object in the /validate response sets access_allowed to true only for a verified source that your tenant allowlists. A policy rule can allow or block this crawler by its category, Preview.

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