LinieBot

LinieBot is the web client of LINIE, a tool interior designers use to collect furniture and decor references into client projects. If you see it in your logs, a LINIE user asked for one of your pages, or LINIE is refreshing its catalog.

LinieBot is operated by AKA STUDIO-BY KARIV (org.nr. 936 974 643), registered in Norway.

When it visits

  • On request. A designer pastes a product link into LINIE or saves it with the LINIE browser extension. LinieBot fetches that one page (title, price, product images) and, when the designer views the item, its image.
  • Catalog refresh. For the retailers in LINIE’s catalog, a scheduled job reads product pages and product feeds about once a week.

How it behaves

  • It always identifies itself with this user agent:Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; LinieBot/1.0; +https://linie.design/bot)
  • It obeys robots.txt, including Crawl-delay, for every request: pages, images and redirects.
  • It does not solve CAPTCHAs or bot challenges, imitate a browser, or rotate IPs or identities. If your site blocks it, it stays blocked.
  • It backs off when a site answers 429 Too Many Requests.

Blocking or limiting it

Add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: LinieBot Disallow: /

Changes take effect within 24 hours. To ask us to stop sooner, or for anything else, email adikariv@madebykariv.com.

Verifying it

Every request is signed with Web Bot Auth (HTTP Message Signatures, Ed25519). Requests carry Signature, Signature-Input and Signature-Agent: "https://linie.design". The public key is published at:

https://linie.design/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory

A request claiming to be LinieBot without a valid signature is not from us.