LinerBot
Fully verifiableWeb crawler operated by Liner, an AI search and research assistant. It builds and refreshes the index behind Liner's search and reference features — paper metadata, citations and DOI resolution — so Liner's agents can retrieve and cite pages. Liner's crawler page documents the user agent and robots.txt token, gives worked examples for a full disallow and for path-scoped rules, and states that rules naming LinerBot do not apply to its on-demand sibling Liner-User. Both agents sign their requests with HTTP Message Signatures under separate keys; Liner publishes no address ranges for either.
Operated by Liner · Official documentation
User agents
Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.
- regexLinerBot/\d
- observedMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; LinerBot/1.0; +https://liner-bot.liner.com/docs/liner-bot)
How to verify
Fetch the Web Bot Auth key directory
curl -s https://liner-bot.liner.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directoryGood Bot Practices scorecard
- Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
- Verifiable
Fully verifiable
- Respects robots.txt
Honors robots.txt (token: LinerBot)
- Behaves
Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset
- Reachable operator
Operator and documentation published
Measured against the Good Bot Practices.