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LinkupBot

LinkupBot discovers and retrieves publicly accessible webpages to build and maintain the Linkup web search index.
LinkupBot
Search Engine Crawler

What is LinkupBot?

LinkupBot discovers public webpages and retrieves them for Linkup's web search index. Its complete user-agent identifies the request as web indexing and includes the operator's bot page and contact address. The stable token is LinkupBot.

This index has a direct AI search use. Linkup provides search and web grounding to AI applications, and its search endpoint can return ranked sources, a cited answer, or structured data. A page admitted to the index may therefore be retrieved when an assistant or agent needs current web context.

Linkup publishes crawler IP ranges and recommends checking both the source address and user-agent because the header can be copied by anyone. Its current bot documentation says LinkupBot follows applicable robots.txt rules. The IP list can change, so a permanent copy is less reliable than refreshing the published data.

Grounding is not the same as model training. Linkup documents query-time search and retrieval for AI applications, but its crawler page does not say that fetched pages are used to train a foundation model. The supported impact is inclusion in an index that can supply sources and cited context to AI systems.

Relevant for AI search

Is LinkupBot relevant for AI search?

Yes. LinkupBot collects pages for an AI product, so what it can crawl influences how AI systems describe your brand.

LinkupBot feeds a search index that also powers that engine's AI answer features and overviews. One crawl can serve a classic results page and a generated summary, so blocking it costs you both the rankings you would expect and a growing share of AI answers built on the same index.

How to handle LinkupBot

Allow public pages that you want available to Linkup-backed search and AI grounding. Exclude drafts and internal or generated paths if they should not enter that retrieval layer.

The operator publishes this full-site block:

User-agent: LinkupBot
Disallow: /

Linkup says the crawler respects applicable rules, but robots.txt does not secure a resource. Keep confidential content behind authentication. For WAF rules, require the LinkupBot token and an address in Linkup's current CIDR list rather than matching a versioned user-agent string.

Examples

  • A research assistant uses Linkup search to answer a current question and cites a publisher page that LinkupBot previously added to the index.
  • A platform team refreshes Linkup's CIDR list in its WAF and checks it alongside the user-agent before classifying crawler traffic as genuine.

Frequently asked questions about LinkupBot

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It retrieves public pages to build and maintain Linkup's web search index, where they can become sources returned by Linkup search products.

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