What is Loomly Bot?
Direct Answer: Loomly Bot is a social media bot operated by Loomly, used to extract metadata for social media post previews.
The Loomly Bot is utilized to extract metadata from web pages, allowing clients to preview their social media posts within Loomly. This functionality enables users to see how their social media posts will appear when published. The bot is a component of Loomly's social media management tool.
User-Agent Identification
The following user-agent strings identify Loomly Bot in your live traffic data:
LoomlyBot
robots.txt Rules for Loomly Bot
Respects robots.txt: No
This bot does not commit to following robots.txt
Loomly Bot 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 Loomly Bot 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 26, 2026 | 88.0 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | 82.7 |
| Mar 28, 2026 | 83.1 |
| Mar 29, 2026 | 81.8 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | 87.3 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 90.2 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | 88.9 |
Source: Cloudflare Radar
Why track Loomly Bot traffic?
Ensure your link previews render correctly. Loomly Bot fetches your pages to generate link preview cards on Loomly. If it can't access your meta tags, your shared links display broken or generic previews.
Monitor social sharing activity. Loomly Bot requests correlate with how often your URLs are being shared on Loomly, even before engagement metrics are available.
Log Verification
To verify Loomly Bot traffic in your live traffic data:
- Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
- Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by Loomly)
- Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
- 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 Loomly Bot:
- crawl frequency
- request pattern
- IP verification method
- JavaScript rendering
Verify your link previews work — and track social bot access
- Confirm Loomly Bot can access your Open Graph meta tags
- Track which URLs are being shared on Loomly
- Detect failed fetches causing broken preview cards
Official Documentation
View Official Loomly Bot Documentation →
Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.