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What it says about automated access

robots.txt:

robots.txt https://www.linkedin.com/robots.txt read 2026-10-03

AgentRules it follows (RFC 9309)Over the whole file
*the * groupdisallowed at / (line 4858)
Googlebotits own group109 Disallow rules; / allowed; not bound by 1 of the * Disallow rules
Bingbotits own group109 Disallow rules; / allowed; not bound by 1 of the * Disallow rules
GPTBotits own groupdisallowed at / (line 4783)
OAI-SearchBotits own group111 Disallow rules; / allowed; not bound by 1 of the * Disallow rules
ChatGPT-Userits own groupdisallowed at / (line 4646)
ClaudeBotits own groupdisallowed at / (line 4649)
Claude-SearchBotits own group111 Disallow rules; / allowed; not bound by 1 of the * Disallow rules
Claude-Userits own groupdisallowed at / (line 4655)
Google-Extendedits own groupdisallowed at / (line 4640)
PerplexityBotits own groupdisallowed at / (line 4789)
CCBotits own groupdisallowed at / (line 4816)
Bytespiderits own groupdisallowed at / (line 4855)
meta-externalagentits own groupdisallowed at / (line 4801)

With no group of their own, these follow the * group: Applebot-Extended.

Under RFC 9309 an agent with its own group follows only that group, so the * rules do not apply to it.

Official way in

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Documents

User Agreement terms · named in robots.txt, line 3 of www.linkedin.com · not read by us: robots.txt's comments prohibit crawling, so our crawler reads nothing else from this host

Crawling Terms and Conditions terms · named in robots.txt, line 8 of www.linkedin.com · not read by us: robots.txt's comments prohibit crawling, so our crawler reads nothing else from this host

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