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LinerBot

LinerBot gathers web content for Liner, an AI research and answer assistant that cites the sources behind its responses.
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What is LinerBot?

LinerBot is Liner's AI assistant crawler. LinerBot gathers web content for Liner, an AI research and answer assistant that cites the sources behind its responses.

LinerBot helps decide whether you show up in AI answers. It fetches and indexes pages so its assistant can cite them in responses, which means the content it can reach is the content that can be quoted, linked, and recommended to users. For generative engine optimization, keeping LinerBot allowed is important: block it and you effectively opt out of being cited on that AI surface.

Tracking which AI crawlers and agents reach your site, and what they do once there, is the foundation of generative engine optimization. See our guides to AI crawlers and robots.txt to control automated access and protect your AI search visibility.

Want to see every AI bot hitting your site? Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic, so you can watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others crawl your pages and connect those visits to real citations and revenue. Learn more in AI crawler logs.

See every AI bot hitting your site

Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic. Watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and more crawl your pages in real time, see exactly what they take, and connect every crawl to the citations and revenue it drives.

How to handle LinerBot

Most sites keep LinerBot allowed, because blocking it can remove your pages from the AI answers and search results it powers. Only disallow it if you specifically want to opt out of that surface.

To control LinerBot, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: LinerBot
Disallow: /

LinerBot generally honors robots.txt directives.

Examples

  • After publishing a new comparison page, a marketer checks whether LinerBot has fetched it so the content can appear in AI answers.
  • An SEO lead keeps LinerBot allowed in robots.txt to preserve visibility in AI-powered search.

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Frequently asked questions about LinerBot

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LinerBot is operated by Liner. It functions as Liner's AI assistant crawler.

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