Verified Bots Directory

Directory / Social previews

LinkedInBot

Listed only

LinkedIn's crawler that fetches shared links to build post link previews. LinkedIn's own robots.txt names the "LinkedInBot" token, but LinkedIn publishes no dedicated bot-documentation page, IP list, ASN, or reverse-DNS pattern for this crawler.

Operated by LinkedIn · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexLinkedInBot/\d
  • observedLinkedInBot/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla/5.0; Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/4.3 +http://www.linkedin.com)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Operator publishes no verification path

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: LinkedInBot)

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.