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.
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Expected Behavior
LinerBot fetches one page at a time, the moment someone asks a question it can answer, so it never crawls your site. How much you see depends on how many people use LinerBot and how often they ask about what your site covers. A popular assistant can hit you steadily, while a single user or a niche one stays quiet between occasional spikes.
Overview
| Operated By | Liner |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 7, 2026 |
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
As of July 7, 2026, 2% of top websites block LinerBot in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Assistant Traffic
As of July 7, 2026, 1.2% of all web traffic came from AI assistants.
This data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
LinerBot's User Agent
| User Agent | LinerBot |
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How To Block LinerBot
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block LinerBot from accessing your entire website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: LinerBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/linerbot
Disallow: /Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block LinerBot?
Probably not. LinerBot fetches a page when someone asks a question it can answer, and the response cites and links to your site. Blocking it removes you from those answers without improving your Google rankings, because assistants play no part in traditional search indexing. For comparison, 2% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for LinerBot.
Does LinerBot Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. LinerBot is expected to honor robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms LinerBot actually honors it.
Does LinerBot Access Private Content?
It has no way in. LinerBot fetches pages the way an anonymous visitor loads a URL, with no stored logins. Anything behind a paywall or a login stays out of its reach.
Why Is LinerBot Visiting My Website?
Someone asked Liner's assistant a question your page can help answer. LinerBot retrieved the page in that moment to ground the answer, usually with a citation linking back to you.
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 fetches of individual pages that do not follow a crawl pattern. Keep in mind that LinerBot doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.