LinerBot
LinerBot is a crawler run by Liner. It indexes the web for Liner AI search.
What it does
LinerBot crawls pages to build the search index an AI platform answers from. Most operators use a separate user agent for each job, so you can usually allow or block one without affecting the others.
Crawlers that build search indexes used by AI platforms. Access supports discovery but does not guarantee a listing or citation.
User agent
LinerBotRequests from LinerBot carry this token in their user agent string. Match the token rather than a full string, which changes as Liner updates versions.
robots.txt
To block LinerBot, add this to the robots.txt at the root of your site:
User-agent: LinerBot
Disallow: /Blocking it keeps your pages out of that index, so the platform has less of your content to find and cite. Allowing it makes your pages eligible, not guaranteed, to appear in answers.
To allow it explicitly, for example after a broader rule blocks other crawlers:
User-agent: LinerBot
Allow: /Check what your robots.txt allows for LinerBot and the other AI crawlers in this directory.
Verifying requests
Liner publishes the IP addresses LinerBot uses. A request that claims to be LinerBot from any other address is not genuine.
In SurfacedBy
SurfacedBy's AI traffic tracking recognizes LinerBot in the user agent and checks each request against Liner's published addresses. Only requests that pass count as crawls; the rest are shown separately.
Operator documentation
Details on this page come from Liner's own documentation: docs.getliner.com/docs/linerbot.