OpenGraphBot is an automated fetcher whose user agent points to https://tinyurl.com/, the URL shortening service operated by TinyURL LLC, and it shares that operator with UrlDownloadabilityBot. The name indicates it requests pages to read Open Graph metadata such as title, description and image so a preview can be built for a shortened link, but TinyURL does not document this bot on its website or in its help pages, so the purpose is inferred from the user agent name. TinyURL publishes no IP ranges and no reverse DNS hostnames for it, and it is absent from the public bot catalogues, so its requests cannot be verified as genuinely coming from TinyURL.

At a glance

Operator: TinyURL LLC
Type: Preview

How Centinel checks it

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

OpenGraphBot 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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