Bot signals · Web crawler
What is LinkUpBot (LinkUp jobs)?
LinkUpBot (LinkUp job search)
LinkUpBot is the web crawler of LinkUp, a job search engine. It crawls company career sites, gathers links to all active, publicly available jobs and parses them for the LinkUp job index. It is unrelated to LinkupBot, the Linkup AI search crawler.
01 · Profile
LinkUpBot (LinkUp jobs) at a glance.
What to look for in your logs, and what the lookup API returns for its addresses.
- Type
- Web crawler
- User agent
LinkUpBot- robots.txt
User-agent: LinkUpBot- API flag
risk.is_crawler
A user agent alone never sets a flag. Anyone can claim to be LinkUpBot (LinkUp jobs); the flag follows the address the request comes from.
02 · In the response
What a match looks like.
A lookup of a LinkUpBot (LinkUp jobs) address sets risk.is_crawler. The flags come with geolocation and network data in the same response, for API keys on every paid plan.
The response says which kind of bot an address belongs to, not which operator. A request that claims to be LinkUpBot (LinkUp jobs) while risk.is_crawler is false should not be trusted as LinkUpBot (LinkUp jobs).
{
// … location and network fields …
"risk": {
"is_ai": false,
"is_crawler": true,
"is_scanner": false
}
}
03 · Control
Allow or block LinkUpBot (LinkUp jobs).
User-agent: LinkUpBot Disallow: /
To enforce it
- robots.txt is a request. Well-behaved bots follow it; impostors using its name don’t.
- Firewall, WAF or CDN. Many offer bot rules you can allow or deny by category. Use them to enforce what robots.txt only asks for.
- In your app. Look up the client address and allow or deny on
risk.is_crawler, alongside the user agent. - Never on the user agent alone. Blocking the name stops only honest clients; allowing it lets anyone in who borrows it.
04 · Questions
About LinkUpBot (LinkUp jobs).
What is LinkUpBot (LinkUp jobs)?
LinkUpBot is the web crawler of LinkUp, a job search engine. It crawls company career sites, gathers links to all active, publicly available jobs and parses them for the LinkUp job index. It is unrelated to LinkupBot, the Linkup AI search crawler.
How do I block LinkUpBot (LinkUp jobs)?
Add a robots.txt rule for LinkUpBot. LinkUp says LinkUpBot obeys robots.txt, including Crawl-delay, though it advises against a delay above 30 seconds, and that changes can take up to 24 hours to be picked up. Under the robots.txt standard, user-agent names are not case-sensitive, so a group for LinkUpBot also addresses LinkupBot, Linkup’s unrelated AI crawler. To enforce a block rather than request one, deny it at your firewall, WAF or CDN.
Can I trust a request that says it is LinkUpBot (LinkUp jobs)?
Not on the user agent alone: any client can send “LinkUpBot” in its user agent. A user agent alone never sets a flag. Check the address with the free bot checker or the lookup API.
Which risk flag does LinkUpBot (LinkUp jobs) set?
Its addresses set risk.is_crawler in the lookup response. The risk flags come with every paid plan.
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