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+1  Q: 

How can I determine if Facebook is hitting my page?

Does anyone know how to check in ASP.NET (C#) if Facebook is scraping a page? I'd like to be able to check on the server side if the "browser" hitting the page is actually Facebook (e.g. when it grabs details when a user is attempting to share a link).

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Look at the referrer .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer

Mawg  2010-05-14 02:24:13
Referrer will not be set if Facebook servers perform direct request. It will only be set if Facebook server directs the client browser to the OP server.
Franci Penov  2010-05-14 02:44:48
+6  A: 

Check whether Request.UserAgent contains Facebook.

SLaks  2010-05-14 02:27:42
I checked for lowercase "facebook" and that seems to have done the trick. Let's hope Facebook don't come out with their own browser now.
soutarm  2010-05-14 04:31:26

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