Hootsuite-Authoring is attributed to Hootsuite and appears to be the fetch made while a user composes a post in the Hootsuite Composer, retrieving a linked page so the tool can show the title, description and thumbnail preview before publishing. Hootsuite does not document this user agent, and it publishes no IP ranges or reverse DNS hostnames for its page fetchers. Third party user agent databases list other Hootsuite fetchers such as Hootsuite-WebFeed and a Hootsuite image proxy but carry no entry for this one, so the naming convention is the main corroboration, and a separate Hootsuite agent also seen in traffic is not covered by this entry.

At a glance

Operator: Hootsuite Inc.
Type: Preview

How Centinel checks it

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

Hootsuite Authoring 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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