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Verify that user agent facebookexternalhit is really Facebook

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I'm seeing a lot of hits on my website with the following user agent:

facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)

I'm trying to verify whether it really is from Facebook or a spoofing bot.

Using these these Facebook directions, I ran the following to get the real IPs:

whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS32934' | grep ^route

That got me more than 800 IPs. They look a lot like the IPs I'm seeing, but not exactly.

For example, my website hits include:

2a03:2880:12ff:2::face:b00c2a03:2880:13ff:f::face:b00c2a03:2880:22ff:4::face:b00c

The whois list includes a lot that start the same, but no exact matches, for example:

2a03:2880:f310::/482a03:2880:f132::/48

Is that... close enough? Is there another way to check?


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