LinkedInBot
| Vendor | LinkedIn (Microsoft) |
| Type | Social link-preview bot |
| robots.txt token | LinkedInBot |
| JavaScript rendering | No |
| Honors robots.txt | Partial |
User-Agent string
LinkedInBot/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla/5.0; Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1 +http://www.linkedin.com)Purpose
Fetches URLs shared on LinkedIn to render the link preview card. Reads og: and twitter: meta tags. Same use case as facebookexternalhit and Twitterbot.
Quirks
- Caches preview images aggressively. Sites that change
og:image
often see the old cached image used by LinkedIn long after the update.
- Use LinkedIn's Post Inspector
to refresh the cache.
- Like other preview bots, won't run JS — static HTML required.
How to control
<meta property="og:title" content="...">
<meta property="og:image" content="...">
<meta property="og:description" content="...">