LinkupBot
LinkupBot is listed as a search crawler, and its operator is unclear in the community reference. In October 2026, 68 sites block it, a 1.1% share of readable files.
Who runs LinkupBot?
| Fact | LinkupBot reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Purpose | “AI Search Crawlers” |
| Does LinkupBot obey robots.txt? | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Frequency | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for LinkupBot | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
The listed use here is search. A site can welcome a page fetch prompted by a person while declining the collection of that text to build future models.
How many sites block it?
The name occurs in 69 out of 6,171 readable files, a 1.1% share. Across the full sample, the whole-site Disallow: / block count is 68, or 1.1%. Files without that ban number 6,103.
Across Tranco’s top 1,000 ranks, there were 552 readable files. Among them, 19 files carry the name, or 3.4%, with 19 files blocking the whole site. Blocking is more common among the leading sites, at 3.4%. Farther down, 49 of 5,619 files record a block, 0.9% of that group.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LinkupBot, all ranks | 69 | 1.1% | 68 | 1.1% |
| LinkupBot, top 1,000 | 19 | 3.4% | 19 | 3.4% |
| LinkupBot, remaining ranks | 50 | 0.9% | 49 | 0.9% |
Only whole-site blocks recorded against this crawler’s name count here. Rules addressed to every crawler are outside this count. Of 68 blocks, 1 does not also appear in our count of files naming it. The counted overlap is 67 files, with 2 files naming it without banning all paths. Missing names account for 6,102 files. Repeating a name or changing its capitalization does not increase the naming total.
How to block or allow it
Put these in robots.txt at the site root. Per the robots.txt standard, a group naming LinkupBot takes precedence over User-agent: *.
Block the whole site
User-agent: LinkupBot
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: LinkupBot
Allow: /It's the 89th most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
How we counted
For LinkupBot, on 19 October 2026, we requested robots.txt from Tranco’s top 10,000 sites. Requests could run for 8 seconds, with a 262,144-byte file limit. Shares exclude unreachable, unavailable and oversized files. Later readings are included in results from scripts/robots_2026_08_06.py (robots.py at app commit 07104ff). See the full survey method.
Common questions
Does a User-agent line mean it is blocked?
The 69 files naming it include 2 files without a whole-site ban.
What do the top-ranked sites show?
Leading files record 3.4% with the name and 3.4% blocking it. Across all readable files, the corresponding shares are 1.1% and 1.1%.
Which nearby entry can I compare?
For comparison, GrokBot has 68 files naming it and 73 blocks, or 1.2%. Our counts for this entry are 69 files with the name and 68 blocking the whole site, or 1.1%.