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LinkedInBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

LinkedInBot is used by LinkedIn when rendering link preview information. Operated by LinkedIn.

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Assessment
Page Preview
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is LinkedInBot?

LinkedInBot is a web crawler operated by LinkedIn. LinkedInBot is used by LinkedIn when rendering link preview information.

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

Identification

Bot name
LinkedInBot
Operator
LinkedIn
Category
Page Preview
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
linkedin
User-agent patterns
LinkedInBot
User-agent strings
LinkedInBot/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla/5.0; +http://www.linkedin.com)
LinkedInBot/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla/5.0; Apache-HttpClient +http://www.linkedin.com)
Main use cases
Link preview generationThumbnail creationSocial media cards

Why it crawls your site

LinkedInBot crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by LinkedIn as part of their link preview infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow LinkedInBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for LinkedInBot 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 LinkedInBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: LinkedInBot
Disallow: /

# Allow LinkedInBot full access
User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /
Allow & verify

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

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

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Last updated July 21, 2026