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YandexMobileScreenShotBot

Usually allow

YandexMobileScreenShotBot is a link preview bot from Yandex used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews.

User-Agent

YandexMobileScreenShotBot

User-agent strings are identity signals, not proof of identity. Use Edge to compare the user-agent with IP, datacenter, behavior, path, and request history.

Verification and Detection

Verification method: Verify YandexMobileScreenShotBot by matching `YandexMobileScreenShotBot` to Yandex evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.

YandexMobileScreenShotBot traffic is primarily detected by the `YandexMobileScreenShotBot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `YandexMobileScreenShotBot Yandex robot`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexMobileScreenShotBot/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Yandex infrastructure before trusting the traffic.

Handling Guidance

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the behavior matches your site policy.

YandexMobileScreenShotBot is used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews, and page metadata fetching.

Record Details

Aliases
YandexMobileScreenShotBot Yandex Robot
Type
preview
Operator
Yandex
Family
Yandex
Kind
Preview
Purpose
Preview
Identity
Official Documented
Detection confidence
High
Spoofing risk
YandexMobileScreenShotBot Has Medium Spoofing Risk Because The User Agent Can Be Copied, Even When The Bot Has Strong Source Or Documentation Support.
Status
Active
Respects robots.txt
Yes
Last verified
2026 06 23

Robots.txt Snippet

User-agent: YandexMobileScreenShotBot
Disallow: /

Traffic Matching

Live IP verification, reverse DNS, ASN and datacenter correlation, request history, connected-domain matches, behavioral context, and rule creation are kept inside Botcrawl Edge.

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Evidence and Sources