LinkedInBot

What is LinkedInBot?

About

LinkedInBot is LinkedIn's web crawler that fetches webpage content to generate link previews and rich cards when URLs are shared on the LinkedIn platform, extracting Open Graph metadata and images for social sharing. You can see how often LinkedInBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By LinkedIn
Last Updated 1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

3%
3% of top websites are blocking LinkedInBot
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Country of Origin

United States
LinkedInBot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Computers and Electronics
Health
Business and Industrial
Food and Drink
Real Estate
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Robots.txt

Should I Block LinkedInBot?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block LinkedInBot?

⚠️ 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.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block LinkedInBot 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.

User Agent String LinkedInBot/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla/5.0; Apache-HttpClient +http://www.linkedin.com) 
# robots.txt
# This should block LinkedInBot

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Disallow: /

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