What is LinerBot?
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. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Liner |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 11, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
LinerBot makes isolated, on-demand requests rather than crawling your site. Traffic follows user demand, ranging from sporadic fetches to steady visits for a popular assistant.
LinerBot's User Agent
| User Agent | LinerBot |
How To Block LinerBot With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block LinerBot from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI assistants at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: LinerBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/linerbot
Disallow: /Global Statistics for LinerBot
As of August 11, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
3% of top websites block LinerBot in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Assistant Traffic
0.7% of all web traffic came from AI assistants.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block LinerBot?
Usually not. Blocking LinerBot can keep your pages out of AI-generated answers and eliminate potential citation traffic. It does not improve traditional search rankings. For context, 3% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for LinerBot.
Does LinerBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. LinerBot is expected to follow robots.txt directives, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether LinerBot respects it.
Does LinerBot Access Private Content?
Not ordinarily. LinerBot fetches pages as an anonymous visitor without a stored login. Content protected by a paywall or login remains out of reach.
Why Is LinerBot Visiting My Website?
A user asked Liner's assistant a question your page could help answer. LinerBot retrieved the page to support its response, often with a citation linking back to your site.
How Can I Tell if LinerBot Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks LinerBot visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "LinerBot". Look for a single-page request with no follow-up navigation. Because LinerBot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.