Yeti

Safe Block: Depends Verified robots.txt: No

Yeti is the web crawler for Naver, a South Korean search engine. It indexes websites to provide search results and power other services on the Naver platform.

Key facts

Operator: Naver
Family: Naver
Purpose: Indexing
User-Agent: Yeti
Should you block it?: Depends
Verified: Yes
Respects robots.txt: No
Identity type: Unknown
Confidence: Medium
Last verified: 2026-04-01
Last checked: 2026-04-01

Bot details

Identity

User-Agent: Yeti
robots.txt token: Yeti
HTTP user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +http://naver.me/spd) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.0 Safari/537.36 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +http://naver.me/spd)
Aliases: Yeti/

Ownership

Operator: Naver
Family: Naver
Type: Search
Purpose: Indexing

Verification and trust

Source type: Unknown
Confidence: Medium
Last verified: 2026-04-01
Last checked: 2026-04-01
Verification: Validate the identifying user-agent or signature against the operator documentation before creating hard allow rules.
Operator URL: https://help.naver.com/support/contents/contents.help?serviceNo=19634&categoryNo=19668&_website_robots
Source URL: https://help.naver.com/support/contents/contents.help?serviceNo=19634&categoryNo=19668&_website_robots
Spoofing risk: User-agent strings can be spoofed. For allow-listing or low-friction rules, pair the published identifier with operator documentation or cryptographic verification when available.

Blocking and detection

Robots

User-agent: Yeti
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

(http.user_agent contains "Yeti")

Advanced server rules

Apache

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Yeti [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]

Nginx

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

Notes

It indexes websites to provide search results and power other services on the Naver platform.

Known user-agent patterns: Yeti/ Known user-agent strings: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +http://naver.me/spd); Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.0 Safari/537.36 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +http://naver.me/spd) Robots.txt handling in the directory: no.

Operator documentation: https://help.naver.com/support/contents/contents.help?serviceNo=19634&categoryNo=19668&_website_robots

Evidence and source

Validate the identifying user-agent or signature against the operator documentation before creating hard allow rules.
Yeti is the web crawler for Naver, a South Korean search engine. It indexes websites to provide search results and power other services on the Naver platform.
User-agent strings can be spoofed. For allow-listing or low-friction rules, pair the published identifier with operator documentation or cryptographic verification when available.

https://help.naver.com/support/contents/contents.help?serviceNo=19634&categoryNo=19668&_website_robots