YandexUserproxy

Neutral Block: Depends Verified robots.txt: No

Proxies user actions on Yandex services, including online translation and button-click responses.

Key facts

Operator: Yandex
Family: Yandex
Purpose: User Triggered
User-Agent: YandexUserproxy
Should you block it?: Depends
Verified: Yes
Respects robots.txt: No
Identity type: Unknown
Confidence: High
Last checked: 2026-04-03

Bot details

Identity

User-Agent: YandexUserproxy
robots.txt token: YandexUserproxy
HTTP user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexUserproxy; robot; +http://yandex.com/bots)

Ownership

Operator: Yandex
Family: Yandex
Type: Unknown
Purpose: User Triggered

Verification and trust

Source type: Unknown
Confidence: High
Last checked: 2026-04-03
Verification: Use reverse DNS and forward DNS matching to confirm the host belongs to yandex.ru, yandex.net, or yandex.com, following Yandex Webmaster guidance.
Operator URL: https://webmaster.yandex.com/
Source URL: https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots
Spoofing risk: User-agent strings can be spoofed. Verify with the operator’s published guidance before allow-listing.

Blocking and detection

Officially documented by Yandex in its Webmaster robot list.

Robots

User-agent: YandexUserproxy
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

(http.user_agent contains "YandexUserproxy")

Advanced server rules

Apache

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} YandexUserproxy [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx

if ($http_user_agent ~* "YandexUserproxy") { return 403; }

Notes

YandexUserproxy is documented by Yandex in its Webmaster robot guidance. Proxies user actions on Yandex services, including online translation and button-click responses.

Evidence and source

Use reverse DNS and forward DNS matching to confirm the host belongs to yandex.ru, yandex.net, or yandex.com, following Yandex Webmaster guidance.
Officially documented by Yandex in its Webmaster robot list.
Proxies user actions on Yandex services, including online translation and button-click responses.
User-agent strings can be spoofed. Verify with the operator’s published guidance before allow-listing.

https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots