linko
Linko link management and URL tracking service crawler
About this crawler
linko is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern linko in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block linko traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.59%
Technical details
- Name
- linko
- Pattern
linko- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://linko.app/crawler
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- rDNS suffixes
.linkody.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely linko with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.linkody.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.120 Safari/537.36 https://linko.app/crawler
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow linko:
User-agent: linko
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} linko [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "linko") {
return 403;
}
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