Linespider is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by LINE Corporation.
Linespider is a Web crawler that provides a wide range of search results for LINE services while complying with the Robots Exclusion Protocol. https://help2.line.me/linesearchbot/web/?contentId=50006055&lang=en
Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.
Linespider identifies itself with this user agent string:
LinespiderAnyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
Linespider follows robots.txt, so these rules stop it crawling the paths you choose. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: Linespider Disallow: /
User-agent: Linespider Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: Linespider Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: Linespider Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: Linespider group, Linespider ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.Linespider from Linespider's user agent; check LINE Corporation's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
Linespider brings search traffic, so keep the real one allowed. Fake Linespider requests are a common cover for scrapers, so verify it by network rather than by name.
Transfon Security for publishersSearch crawlers fetch landing pages to check them. Keep Linespider allowed, but out of campaign and conversion data.
Transfon Security for advertisersLinespider indexes products for search results. Allow it, and block impersonators that use its name to scrape prices.
Transfon Security for e-commerceAllow Linespider on marketing and docs pages, and keep it off signed-in app pages it cannot use.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows Linespider by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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Linespider is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by LINE Corporation. Linespider is a Web crawler that provides a wide range of search results for LINE services while complying with the Robots Exclusion Protocol. https://help2.line.me/linesearchbot/web/?contentId=50006055&lang=en
Yes. Linespider follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the Linespider user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.
Add "User-agent: Linespider" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "Linespider" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so Linespider may not follow it, and anyone can send Linespider's user agent, so a fake Linespider ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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