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What is Iframely?

Direct Answer: Iframely is a rich media embed solution operated by Iframely.

Operator: Iframely Type: Social Media Bot Purpose: Rich media embed solution

Iframely is a bot used for rich media embed solution. It operates under the name Iframely and its version is 1.3.1. The bot's purpose is to provide embed solutions for media content.

User-Agent Identification

The following user-agent strings identify Iframely in your live traffic data:

  • Iframely/1.3.1 (+https://iframely.com/docs/about)

robots.txt Rules for Iframely

Respects robots.txt: No

This bot does not commit to following robots.txt

Iframely does not officially follow robots.txt directives. The only reliable way to control access is through server-side blocking (IP filtering, user-agent rules in your web server config) combined with log monitoring to verify effectiveness.

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Crawl Behavior

Frequency:Not Documented

Request Pattern:Not Documented

Crawl Activity Index

Relative crawl activity for Iframely over the past 28 days. Higher values indicate increased crawling intensity compared to the period baseline.

View recent activity data (last 7 days)
Date Activity Index
Mar 28, 2026 8.7
Mar 29, 2026 14.7
Mar 30, 2026 31.6
Mar 31, 2026 37.1
Apr 1, 2026 34.7
Apr 2, 2026 28.9
Apr 3, 2026 18.5

Source: Cloudflare Radar

Why track Iframely traffic?

Ensure your link previews render correctly. Iframely fetches your pages to generate link preview cards on Iframely. If it can't access your meta tags, your shared links display broken or generic previews.

Monitor social sharing activity. Iframely requests correlate with how often your URLs are being shared on Iframely, even before engagement metrics are available.

Log Verification

To verify Iframely traffic in your live traffic data:

  1. Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
  2. Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by Iframely)
  3. Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
  4. Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available

Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.

Undocumented Information

The following information is not officially documented for Iframely:

  • crawl frequency
  • IP verification
  • JavaScript rendering

Verify your link previews work — and track social bot access

  • Confirm Iframely can access your Open Graph meta tags
  • Track which URLs are being shared on Iframely
  • Detect failed fetches causing broken preview cards
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Official Documentation

View Official Iframely Documentation →

Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.