About this bot
YandexMobileBot is associated with Yandex and is used for mobile layout detection.
The primary identity signal is YandexMobileBot. Representative HTTP identity: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12B411 Safari/600.1.4 (compatible; YandexMobileBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented plus fcrdns.
robots.txt behavior: conditional; use the documented agent-specific controls and request context rather than assuming general rules apply.
Verification: Match the documented Yandex identity, then authenticate origin with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the PTR hostname must end in yandex.ru, yandex.net, or yandex.com and forward-resolve to the source IP.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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YandexMobileBotMozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12B411 Safari/600.1.4 (compatible; YandexMobileBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots) - Also known as
- Yandex mobile crawler
Details
- Kind
- Mobile checker
- Family
- Yandex
- Purpose
- Mobile layout detection
- Common Use
- YandexMobileBot evaluates whether pages provide layouts suitable for mobile devices.
- Respects robots.txt
- Depends
Verification
- Identity Type
- official-documented-plus-fcrdns
- Evidence Method
- Match the documented Yandex identity, then authenticate origin with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the PTR hostname must end in yandex.ru, yandex.net, or yandex.com and forward-resolve to the source IP.
- Detection Notes
- YandexMobileBot evaluates whether pages provide layouts suitable for mobile devices. Yandex documents that many non-indexing robots may ignore general User-agent:* rules; use the exact agent group where applicable. Browser version components may change.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: YandexMobileBot Disallow: /