About this bot
YahooSeeker is a crawler associated with Yahoo (historical) and used for search indexing.
Primary directory identity signal: YahooSeeker. Representative HTTP identity: YahooSeeker.
Directory status: Legacy. Identity classification: Unverified with Medium confidence. Identity type: historical observed.
robots.txt behavior is currently unconfirmed. Do not assume robots.txt alone will control this traffic.
Risk classification: Neutral. Recommended handling is to evaluate the request context before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- Also known as
- YahooSeeker
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Yahoo
- Purpose
- Search indexing
- Common Use
- Historical Yahoo search/discovery crawler traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- historical-observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `YahooSeeker` as a historical Yahoo marker only. A present-day request carrying the string is not authenticated Yahoo traffic.
- Detection Notes
- Retained to identify historical traffic; current service lifecycle and authentication evidence are insufficient.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: YahooSeeker Disallow: /- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "YahooSeeker" botcrawl_match=1- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "YahooSeeker") { set $botcrawl_match 1; }