Mediumbot-MetaTagFetcher is a bot operated by Medium, an online publishing platform, that fetches meta tag information from web pages. This bot likely visits websites to extract preview information such as titles, descriptions, and images when users share links on the Medium platform. Its operator does not commit to following robots.txt.

At a glance

Operator: Medium
Type: Preview

How Centinel checks it

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

Mediumbot-MetaTagFetcher 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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