Blocking the Facebook bot?

[webbouk]

What is the best way to block the Facebook bot when it doesn't recognise robots.txt

It appears to be an aggressive bot and has been hitting our server resources a lot recently.
I've added their IP subnets to the 'Banned IP addresses' in the ACP for now but not sure if this is the best way to go about it.

If Mark Z'berg wants to use our content he can pay for it lol

 

[James]

Known Bots

Jun 12, 2018

Adds additional definitions for bot detection in sessions

• Sim
• bots robots
• Add-ons [2.x]

You tried this?

Banning the ip is fine, unless you wanna do it at network level.

 

[Suzanne O]

Cloudflare has something in it that stops that type of bot.

 

[webbouk]

You tried this?

Not yet

 

[rdn]

Try the option from Cloudflare?

 

[Max Taxable]

If it's fetching your content because someone posted a link to your forum in FB, why would you want to block that?

 

[webbouk]

Fetching content isn't blocked.

Here's a link I just posted to our FB group and it worked as expected...