https://community.hubspot.com/t5/Ads/HubSpot-Ads-Link-Fetcher-Crawler/m-p/843191#M2165 <P>I couldn't see any mention of this in the docs or any existing community posts, so I thought I'd share what this crawler is doing - as advised by HubSpot support.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="markup">Request User Agent = HubSpot Ads Link Fetcher/1.0</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P class="lia-indent-padding-left-30px">&nbsp;</P><P class="lia-indent-padding-left-30px">The "HubSpot Ads Link Fetcher" is running when a portal has switched on the Auto Tracking for Ads. With the Fetcher we check if the links specified in the Ads you are tracking have redirecting URLs or not.</P><P class="lia-indent-padding-left-30px">The<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><EM>Hubspot Ads Link Fetcher<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN></EM>in that case is the HTTP client that makes a request to the links in the Ad to determine if it includes a redirect. Which cannot be tracked.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="tomwatney_0-1693498619002.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.hubspot.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/98107i50308391F0DC52DF/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="tomwatney_0-1693498619002.png" alt="tomwatney_0-1693498619002.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:19:52 GMT tomwatney 2023-08-31T16:19:52Z https://community.hubspot.com/t5/Ads/HubSpot-Ads-Link-Fetcher-Crawler/m-p/843191#M2165 <P>I couldn't see any mention of this in the docs or any existing community posts, so I thought I'd share what this crawler is doing - as advised by HubSpot support.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="markup">Request User Agent = HubSpot Ads Link Fetcher/1.0</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P class="lia-indent-padding-left-30px">&nbsp;</P><P class="lia-indent-padding-left-30px">The "HubSpot Ads Link Fetcher" is running when a portal has switched on the Auto Tracking for Ads. With the Fetcher we check if the links specified in the Ads you are tracking have redirecting URLs or not.</P><P class="lia-indent-padding-left-30px">The<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><EM>Hubspot Ads Link Fetcher<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN></EM>in that case is the HTTP client that makes a request to the links in the Ad to determine if it includes a redirect. Which cannot be tracked.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="tomwatney_0-1693498619002.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.hubspot.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/98107i50308391F0DC52DF/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="tomwatney_0-1693498619002.png" alt="tomwatney_0-1693498619002.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:19:52 GMT https://community.hubspot.com/t5/Ads/HubSpot-Ads-Link-Fetcher-Crawler/m-p/843191#M2165 tomwatney 2023-08-31T16:19:52Z https://community.hubspot.com/t5/Ads/HubSpot-Ads-Link-Fetcher-Crawler/m-p/843524#M2168 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.hubspot.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/360140">@tomwatney</a>,</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Thanks for sharing this insight on the Ads Tool with the Community!&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Best,</P> <P>Kristen</P> Fri, 01 Sep 2023 08:34:20 GMT https://community.hubspot.com/t5/Ads/HubSpot-Ads-Link-Fetcher-Crawler/m-p/843524#M2168 kvlschaefer 2023-09-01T08:34:20Z