YandexScreenshotBot

YandexScreenshotBot

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

YandexScreenshotBot traffic is primarily detected by the `YandexScreenshotBot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `YandexScreenshotBot Yandex robot`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 (compatible; YandexScreenshotBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Yandex infrastructure before trusting the traffic.

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

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

Aliases

YandexScreenshotBot Yandex Robot

Type

preview

Operator

Yandex

Family

Yandex

Kind

Preview

Purpose

Preview

Identity

Official Documented

Detection confidence

High

Spoofing risk

YandexScreenshotBot 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

User-agent: YandexScreenshotBot
Disallow: /

• Source reference
• Operator reference