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# LinkedInBot

> LinkedInBot is a link preview fetcher run by LinkedIn. LinkedIn does not document this user agent. LinkedIn's help says it reads Open Graph tags from your page to build previews when links are shared, but it does not name the bot that fetches them.

- Operator: LinkedIn
- Kind: Link preview fetcher
- robots.txt token: none documented
- Source: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a521928 (checked 2026-11-05)
- Page: https://invisit.dev/bots/linkedinbot

## What is LinkedInBot?

LinkedIn does not document this user agent. LinkedIn's help says it reads Open Graph tags from your page to build previews when links are shared, but it does not name the bot that fetches them.

Fetches a page when someone shares its link, to draw the preview card. Blocking it breaks your previews in that app.

- [LinkedIn’s documentation](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a521928)

## Should you block LinkedInBot?

Allow it. Blocking it breaks the preview card when someone shares your link.

## How to block LinkedInBot in robots.txt

LinkedIn documents no robots.txt token for LinkedInBot that we could confirm, so we don’t suggest one here. Block it at your server or firewall by user agent instead.

- [Build a robots.txt for AI bots](https://invisit.dev/tools/robots-txt-generator)

## How to verify a request is really LinkedInBot

Anyone can send any user agent, so the string alone proves nothing.

LinkedIn publishes no IP ranges or DNS names for LinkedInBot that we could find, so there is no reliable way to tell a real LinkedInBot from a scraper using its user agent.

## See when LinkedInBot reads your site

Bots don’t run JavaScript analytics, so a script tag never sees them. invisit records crawler reads on the server instead, through its server SDK or a Cloudflare Worker, and shows which bots read which pages, next to your visitors.

- [Track crawlers with invisit](https://invisit.dev/docs/server/sdk#crawler-reads)

## Common questions

### What is LinkedInBot?

LinkedInBot is a link preview fetcher run by LinkedIn. LinkedIn does not document this user agent. LinkedIn's help says it reads Open Graph tags from your page to build previews when links are shared, but it does not name the bot that fetches them.

### Is LinkedInBot safe to block?

Allow it. Blocking it breaks the preview card when someone shares your link.

### How do I block LinkedInBot?

LinkedIn documents no robots.txt token for it that we could confirm, so block it at your server or firewall by its user agent.