Training crawlers
Linguee Bot is a bot operated by Linguee that collects pages used to train AI models. Linguee Bot is a web crawler used by Linguee to gather training data for its AI powered translation service. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.
Request says
"Linguee Bot"
Checked against
Nothing published
Live check
No operator check exists for Linguee Bot. This still shows what the address really is.
Reference
| User agent | Linguee BotToken only: match on the substring. |
|---|---|
| Operator | Linguee |
| Purpose | AI powered translation service |
| Respects robots.txt | Ignores |
| Verification method | Claim onlyNone published, user agent only No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof. |
| Crawl pattern | Not published |
| Robots.txt tokens | Linguee Bot |
| Operator documentation | None published |
Linguee Bot is a web crawler used by Linguee to gather training data for its AI powered translation service.
robots.txt
Linguee Bot is documented as ignoring robots.txt. Enforce a block at your CDN too.
User-agent: Linguee Bot
Disallow: /User-agent: Linguee Bot
Allow: /User-agent: Linguee Bot
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /searchEdit the Disallow paths to match your own URLs.
Blocking Linguee Bot keeps your pages out of the next training run. It does not remove anything already collected, and it has no effect on how the site ranks in ordinary search.
Build a file for every crawlerFAQ
Linguee Bot is a bot operated by Linguee that collects pages used to train AI models. Linguee Bot is a web crawler used by Linguee to gather training data for its AI powered translation service. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.
Site-owner reports suggest Linguee Bot does not reliably follow robots.txt. Add the rule anyway, then check your logs; if requests continue, block at the edge by user agent or source address.
You cannot, at least not from the request itself. No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof. Compare the source IP against hosting and datacenter ranges instead, and rate limit anything that behaves like a crawler.
Add the Linguee Bot token to robots.txt with Disallow: /. If the crawler ignores robots.txt, match the user agent at your CDN or reverse proxy and return 403 there instead.
Blocking Linguee Bot keeps your pages out of the next training run. It does not remove anything already collected, and it has no effect on how the site ranks in ordinary search.