About this bot
Yahoo Link Preview is a on demand fetcher associated with Yahoo and used for yahoo mail link preview.
Primary directory identity signal: Yahoo Link Preview. Representative HTTP identity: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo Link Preview; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/yahoo-link-preview-SLN23615.html).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
robots.txt is not recorded as a reliable control for this traffic. Use request authentication, application controls, firewall policy, or service configuration when restriction is required.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling is to generally allow or monitor rather than block by identity alone.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Yahoo Link PreviewMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo Link Preview; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/yahoo-link-preview-SLN23615.html) - Also known as
- Yahoo Preview
Details
- Kind
- On demand fetcher
- Family
- Yahoo Mail
- Purpose
- Yahoo mail link preview
- Common Use
- Generating thumbnail images, page titles, and descriptions for URLs referenced in Yahoo Mail messages.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the documented Yahoo Link Preview HTTP identity and corroborate with user-triggered single-URL preview behavior.
- Detection Notes
- The client fetches pages referenced by Yahoo Mail users and does not systematically crawl websites.
Website controls
- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Yahoo Link Preview" botcrawl_match=1- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Yahoo\ Link\ Preview") { set $botcrawl_match 1; }