Bots/twitterbot
User-Agent bots

Twitterbot

X (Twitter) card / link-preview crawler.

Mar 2016
first seen in our archive
6
distinct User-Agents
40K+
requests seen
search
category

Official: developer.x.com

Parse it

Send the User-Agent to the API, device, OS, browser, and bot detection come back in one response. Twitterbot is identified by name when the string matches.

curl -s "https://api.parseapi.com/useragent" \
  -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Safari/605.1.15" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PARSEAPI_KEY"