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Linespider

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Linespider is a Web crawler that provides a wide range of search results for LINE services while complying with the Robots Exclusion Protocol. https://help2.line.me/linesearchbot/web/?contentId=50006055&lang=en Operated by LINE Corporation.

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Assessment

Search Engine Crawler

What is Linespider?

Linespider is a web crawler operated by LINE Corporation. Linespider is a Web crawler that provides a wide range of search results for LINE services while complying with the Robots Exclusion Protocol. https://help2.line.me/linesearchbot/web/?contentId=50006055&lang=en As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Linespider

Operator

LINE Corporation

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Yes

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Linespider crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by LINE Corporation as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Linespider

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Linespider in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Linespider from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Linespider
Disallow: /

# Allow Linespider full access
User-agent: Linespider
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Linespider. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to LINE Corporation's documentation.