LinkedInBot

LinkedInBot is assigned to the Social category by BotScope. Detection is based on the user-agent string. Current pattern:

LinkedInBot

Social media platforms index content for their internal search and for preview cards in posts. Unlike search engine crawlers they often limit themselves to URLs that were shared on their platform.

Once LinkedInBot shows up in your logs, BotScope lets you analyze its crawl paths, status codes, IP distribution and temporal activity — by hour, day or week.

robots.txt directive for LinkedInBot

If you don't want LinkedInBot to crawl your site, add the following block to your /robots.txt. This works only for bots that honour robots.txt — malicious crawlers ignore it.

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Disallow: /

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