Linguee Bot User Agent: What It Is & How to Block It

01 · Operator

Who operates Linguee Bot

Company: Linguee
Type: AI training crawler
Official docs: linguee.com

02 · Behavior

What Linguee Bot does

The bot fetches web pages and identifies itself with a link to linguee.com/bot and a contact address. Third-party databases describe it as collecting training data for an AI translation service.

03 · Impact

Why Linguee Bot matters for your site

If you allow it

Supports a widely used translation service
Identifies itself with a contact address

If you block it

Content is reused for a commercial service
Sends no traffic back in most cases

04 · Allow

How to allow Linguee Bot

robots.txt

User-agent: Linguee
Allow: /

Cloudflare

# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "Linguee")
Action:     Skip › All Super Bot Fight Mode rules

# Also check Security › Bots: "Block AI bots" can block it regardless of robots.txt.

WordPress

# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: Linguee
Allow: /

nginx

# nginx serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure no rule like this blocks it:
# if ($http_user_agent ~* "Linguee") { return 403; }

Apache

# Apache serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure .htaccess has no rule like this:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Linguee [NC]
# RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

05 · Block

How to block Linguee Bot

Start with robots.txt. If Linguee Bot keeps showing up in your logs, block it at your CDN or web server.

robots.txt

User-agent: Linguee
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "Linguee")
Action:     Block

WordPress

# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: Linguee
Disallow: /

nginx

# In your server { } block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Linguee") {
    return 403;
}

Apache

# .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Linguee [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>

06 · User agents

User agents we see for Linguee Bot

The user agent published by the operator:

Linguee Bot (http://www.linguee.com/bot; bot@linguee.com)

07 · Verification

Is it really Linguee Bot?

Linguee Bot’s operator publishes no IP ranges or hostnames, so requests cannot be verified. Treat the user agent as a claim, and watch your logs for unusual request rates.

FAQ

Questions about Linguee Bot

What is Linguee Bot?

It is the web crawler of Linguee, an online translation dictionary. It collects bilingual text for the service.

How do I block Linguee Bot?

Add a robots.txt group for "Linguee" with "Disallow: /", or block the "Linguee Bot" user agent at your server.

Linguee Bot is Linguee’s AI training crawler