Overview
LinkUpBot (Job Search) is the job-listing crawler operated by LinkUp, now part of GlobalData. It collects active public job postings directly from employer career sites for LinkUp’s job index and labor-market data products. It is distinct from LinkupBot operated by Linkup.so.
Primary identity signal: LinkUpBot. LinkUp publishes the crawler’s full User-Agent, robots.txt behavior, Crawl-delay guidance, and source IP.
LinkUpBot obeys robots.txt.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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LinkUpBot - Aliases
- LinkUpBot/1.0
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; LinkUpBot/1.0; +https://www.linkup.com/linkup-bot) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/537.36 - Robots Token
- LinkUpBot
- Identity Type
- operator-documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the case-sensitive LinkUpBot family and corroborate the source as 24.144.65.32 when higher-assurance attribution is needed.
Classification
- Type
- Job crawler
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- LinkUp
- Purpose
- Job listing indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Crawling public employer career sites to index active job postings for job search and labor-market data.
- Detection Notes
- LinkUpBot (capital U) belongs to LinkUp's job crawler and is distinct from LinkupBot (lowercase u) operated by Linkup.so.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- Low when the documented User-Agent is paired with LinkUp's published source IP; User-Agent alone remains spoofable.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: LinkUpBot Disallow: /