Yahoo Slurp

Usually allow

Yahoo Slurp is a search crawler from Yahoo used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness.

User-Agent

Yahoo! Slurp

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 Slurp by matching `Yahoo! Slurp` to Yahoo evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.

Yahoo Slurp traffic is primarily detected by the `Yahoo! Slurp` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) sieve-gq1/1560642271-0`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Yahoo infrastructure before trusting the traffic.

Handling Guidance

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the behavior matches your site policy.

Yahoo Slurp is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.

Record Details

Type: search
Operator: Yahoo
Family: Yahoo
Kind: Crawler
Purpose: Indexing
Identity: Verified Bot
Detection confidence: Medium
Spoofing risk: Yahoo Slurp 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: Yes
Last verified: 2026 06 23

Robots.txt Snippet

User-agent: Yahoo! Slurp
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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