Bot intelligence record

YandexMobileScreenShotBot

Usually allow

YandexMobileScreenShotBot is a link preview bot from Yandex used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews; it appears in server logs as `YandexMobileScreenShotBot`.

Preview Official Documented Confidence: High Verified: Yes robots.txt: Yes
Operator
Yandex
Family
Yandex
Type
Preview
Source type
Official
Last checked
2026-06-23

User-Agent Pattern

Yandex
YandexMobileScreenShotBot
Verification note

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

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User-agent: YandexMobileScreenShotBot
Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

Depends

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

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

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
Yandex
Family
Yandex
Type
Preview
Purpose
Preview
Identity type
Official Documented
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-06-23
Last checked
2026-06-23
Source type
Official
Verification
Verify YandexMobileScreenShotBot by matching `YandexMobileScreenShotBot` to Yandex evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Spoofing risk
YandexMobileScreenShotBot has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.

Notes

  • YandexMobileScreenShotBot is a link preview bot from Yandex used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews, and page metadata fetching.
  • Its primary user-agent pattern is YandexMobileScreenShotBot; related patterns include YandexMobileScreenShotBot Yandex robot; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexMobileScreenShotBot/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots).
  • YandexMobileScreenShotBot is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
  • YandexMobileScreenShotBot is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
  • YandexMobileScreenShotBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.

Evidence and Source

  • 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.
  • YandexMobileScreenShotBot is used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews, and page metadata fetching.
  • YandexMobileScreenShotBot has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.

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