Bots by company
Telegram bots and crawlers
Telegram runs a cloud-based messaging app.
Telegram bots at a glance
- Telegram runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Social and Messaging Previews.
- Each Telegram bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: telegram.org
Every Telegram bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TelegramBot | Social and Messaging Previews | Link previewReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Telegram bots
The rules below name every Telegram token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Telegram bots
User-agent: TelegramBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Telegram bots
User-agent: TelegramBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Telegram bots out of private areas only
User-agent: TelegramBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Telegram bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(TelegramBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Telegram bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (TelegramBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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