What LinerBot does
LinerBot is the web crawler operated by Liner, which gathers information from the internet and indexes it for Liner's search engine. It identifies itself with a user agent containing LinerBot/1.0 and a link to its documentation page. Site owners can block it entirely or grant selective access to specific directories using standard robots.txt rules. Liner notes that the crawler's IP pool may change over time and points to its website for current IP information.
How to control LinerBot
Target LinerBot in your robots.txt with the LinerBot token. Rules apply per bot, so you can allow this one while blocking others, or the reverse.
Allow LinerBot
User-agent: LinerBot
Allow: /Block LinerBot
User-agent: LinerBot
Disallow: /Liner's documentation notes that the crawler's IP pool may change over time and directs site owners to the Liner website for the latest IP information rather than publishing fixed ranges in the doc.
How to identify LinerBot
Temso identifies LinerBottraffic by matching the request's User-Agent header against this pattern. User-agent strings can be spoofed, so treat a match as an indication, not proof.
LinerBotLinerBot FAQ
What is LinerBot?
LinerBot is Liner's web crawler, which gathers and indexes internet content for the Liner search engine. It identifies itself with the LinerBot/1.0 token in its user agent string.
How do I block LinerBot?
Add a robots.txt group with "User-agent: LinerBot" and "Disallow: /" to block it completely. Liner's documentation also supports selective rules, so you can disallow only specific directories instead of the whole site.
About AI Search Crawlers
Crawlers that build the retrieval indexes behind AI search products like ChatGPT search and Perplexity. They decide which pages can be cited as sources.
Blocking these keeps your content out of the source index: AI search products can't cite pages they can't crawl.
