Bots by company
Linkup bots and crawlers
Linkup provides a web search API for AI applications.
Linkup bots at a glance
- Linkup runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Search Crawlers.
- Each Linkup bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.linkup.so
Every Linkup bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LinkupBot | AI Search Crawlers | AI searchReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Linkup bots
The rules below name every Linkup token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Linkup bots
User-agent: LinkupBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Linkup bots
User-agent: LinkupBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Linkup bots out of private areas only
User-agent: LinkupBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Linkup bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(LinkupBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Linkup bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (LinkupBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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