LinerBot

What is LinerBot?

About

LinerBot is the web crawler used by Liner AI assistant to gather information from academic sources and websites to provide accurate answers with line-by-line source citations for research and scholarly work. You can see how often LinerBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

AI assistants make one-off visits to websites based on user requests, rather than crawling the web in any automatic fashion. This allows the underlying LLM to incorporate up-to-date information outside of its training data in its answers, using a technique called retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Type

AI Assistant
Intelligently fetches content on behalf of a user

Detail

Operated By Liner
Last Updated 17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking LinerBot
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Country of Origin

Unknown
LinerBot has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Assistants

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Robots.txt

Should I Block LinerBot?

Probably not. AI assistants visit websites directly on behalf of human users, so blocking them will effectively block those users. This could lead to a poor user experience and possible negative sentiment about your website. Not blocking AI assistants will allow more human users to use your website as they choose.

How Do I Block LinerBot?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

You can block LinerBot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt
# This should block LinerBot

User-agent: LinerBot
Disallow: /

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