Yahoo Link Preview

Review

Yahoo Link Preview is a link preview bot from Yahoo used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews.

User-Agent

Yahoo Link Preview

User-agent strings are identity signals, not proof of identity. Use Edge to compare the user-agent with IP, datacenter, behavior, path, and request history.

Verification and Detection

Verification method: Verify Yahoo Link Preview by matching `Yahoo Link Preview` to Yahoo evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.

Yahoo Link Preview traffic is primarily detected by the `Yahoo Link Preview` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Yahoo preview bot`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo Link Preview; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/yahoo-link-preview-SLN23615.html)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Yahoo infrastructure before trusting the traffic.

Handling Guidance

Use this public record as identity context, then verify source, behavior, and site impact inside Edge before creating rules.

Yahoo Link Preview is used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews, and page metadata fetching.

Record Details

Aliases: Yahoo Preview Bot
Type: preview
Operator: Yahoo
Family: Yahoo
Kind: Preview
Purpose: Preview
Identity: Verified Bot
Detection confidence: Medium
Spoofing risk: Yahoo Link Preview Has Medium Spoofing Risk Because User Agent Strings Can Be Copied; Pair The Match With DNS, IP, Behavior, Or Operator Evidence.
Status: Active
Respects robots.txt: No
Last verified: 2026 06 23

Robots.txt Snippet

User-agent: Yahoo Link Preview
Disallow: /

Traffic Matching

Live IP verification, reverse DNS, ASN and datacenter correlation, request history, connected-domain matches, behavioral context, and rule creation are kept inside Botcrawl Edge.

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