Bot intelligence record
YandexBot
Usually allowYandexBot is a search crawler from Yandex used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness; it appears in server logs as `YandexBot`.
User-Agent Pattern
YandexYandexBot
User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.
Robots.txt Snippet
Click snippet to copyUser-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /Click the snippet to copy it, or highlight the text manually.
Handling Guidance
DependsThis bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.
YandexBot is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- Yandex
- Family
- Yandex
- Type
- Search
- Purpose
- Indexing
- Identity type
- Official Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Last verified
- 2026-04-01
- Last checked
- 2026-05-20
- Source type
- Official
- Verification
- Verify YandexBot by matching `YandexBot` to Yandex evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Spoofing risk
- YandexBot has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
Notes
- YandexBot is a search crawler from Yandex used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
YandexBot; related patterns includehttp://yandex.com/bots; Yandex main crawler; a representative HTTP user-agent isMozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots). - YandexBot is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
- YandexBot is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
- YandexBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Evidence and Source
- Verify YandexBot by matching `YandexBot` to Yandex evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- YandexBot traffic is primarily detected by the `YandexBot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `http://yandex.com/bots; Yandex main crawler`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Yandex infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- YandexBot is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- YandexBot has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots
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