Social Media Minor Platforms
Often these bots gather, cache and display info about your content such as the title, description, and thumbnail image from your pages so that rich content links can be viewed in the social media platform. These are the minor social media platforms. They probably won't generate much traffic, but don't cause harm.
Vendor
Bot Service
Recommendation
Description
VKontakte
Post in VK
Recommended
Not recommended
Post in VK is a product of the largest social network in Russia and the CIS, VK. This crawler will visit your site in response to the embedded VK Share link which you have embedded into your site. If you use this and want people to be able to see information when receiving a share link you should allow this bot.
Telegram
Telegram
Recommended
Not recommended
Telegram is a messaging solution much like WhatsApp with a focus on speed and security as well as privacy and encryption. Telegram allows user to send send messages, photos, videos and files of any type (doc, zip, mp3, etc) to their contact. This crawler will visit if a user shares one of your site URLs with one of their contacts. Allow this bot if you are happy for users to be able to preview links of your site in the Telegram App.
Oracle
AddThis
Recommended
Not recommended
Popular free social sharing tools, follows and social plugins, supports Accellerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and a range of Content Management Systems (CMS) platforms including Wordpress.
HubPages
HubPages
Recommended
Not recommended
This content checking bot crawls webpages to help ensure that content submitted to HubPages is not copied from those sites. The bot also checks for linked articles that appear on HubPages for broken links and re-directs. It's not known to cause bandwidth spikes and respects robots.txt.
Bublup
Bublup
Recommended
Not recommended
Bublup is a consumer focused visual cloud based product allowing user to organise and share collections of information with friends. Bublup Bot systematically browses web content to create a database of items for users. The bot helps Bublup identify the data on the web pages, including page title, description, and related images. The web pages contain information that enable Bublup to provide suggestions, filter spam, and display useful information related to that page. The Bublup Bot periodically fetches pages and their content, and enables the process, storage or refresh page content. The bot is also configured to automatically rate-limit concurrent requests made to your website.