About this bot
YandexDialogs is a fetcher associated with Yandex and used for assistant skill fetching.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is YandexDialogs. Representative HTTP request identity: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexDialogs/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
robots.txt is not recorded as a reliable control for this identity; use server-side controls when restriction is required.
Risk classification: Neutral. Evaluate request context and site policy before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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YandexDialogsMozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexDialogs/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
Details
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- Yandex
- Purpose
- Assistant skill fetching
- Common Use
- requests to Yandex Alice and Dialog skills
- Respects robots.txt
- No
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `YandexDialogs` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate it with independent network, DNS, cryptographic, or request-context signals when stronger authentication is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `YandexDialogs` User-Agent token. A User-Agent match identifies a claim, not authenticated origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt is not a reliable control for this identity. Use server-side access controls if restriction is required.