LinkedIn Bot
LinkedIn Bot is a link preview fetcher for a social network run by LinkedIn.
- Operator
- Type
- Social Media Agent
- Official page
- linkedin.com
- In Vireo
- Excluded, reported under Link previews
User agent
Requests from LinkedIn Bot carry a user agent like this:
LinkedInBot/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla/5.0; Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1 +http://www.linkedin.com)Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):
LinkedInBotAnyone can put any name in a user agent. Where the operator publishes IP ranges, checking the request's address against them is the way to confirm a visit is genuine.
How Vireo counts LinkedIn Bot
Vireo keeps requests from LinkedIn Bot out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Link previews, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.
Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over LinkedIn Bot's user agents.
Sources
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