Overview
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 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).
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.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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YandexBot - Aliases
- http://yandex.com/bots; Yandex main crawler
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots) - Robots Token
- YandexBot
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify YandexBot by matching `YandexBot` to Yandex evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Yandex
- Purpose
- Indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- YandexBot is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Detection Notes
- 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.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- YandexBot has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: YandexBot Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- Yandex Checked 2026-08-07
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.