How to allowlist VK.COM bot to allow it scrap info for shared links?

What is the name of the domain?

https://www.fertilizerdaily.ru/20170406-chistaya-pribyl-pao-akron-po-msfo-za-2016-god-vyrosla-na-53/

What is the issue you’re encountering

VK.COM bot can’t get access to the website to get link data for sharing

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

allowlisted VK’s ASN I could find

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

When I am trying to share the article on VK it doesn’t generate any link preview.
Although it does for other news websites.

I think VK bot can’t get access to the website and I can’t find how to allow it in the firewall settings.

Screenshot of the error

If you’ve added it to the WAF - > Tools → IP Access Rules, it should help :thinking:

You should be able to track & trace down the challenged or blocked events under the Security tab → Events at Cloudflare dashboard for your zone at the moments when you share the link on the VK.com social media, and know exactly which security option was triggered. Could be Bot Fight Mode or Browser Integrity.

Once you find them, click on a particular one to find more details about it (user-agent, IP, HTTP version …). If yes, could you share some details which service was triggered that blocked you?

  • you should see your origin host/server IP out there, user-agent like WP-cron or WordPress/version, and ASN as well

Thank you for your recommendations!
We were able to spot the problem and fix it with your advice.

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