About this bot
Yeti is associated with NAVER Corporation and is used for naver search indexing.
The primary identity signal is Yeti. Representative HTTP identity: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +https://naver.me/spd); Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Yeti/1.1; +https://naver.me/spd) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
robots.txt behavior: respected under the `Yeti` token.
Verification: Match the documented Yeti/1.1 identity. Treat the User-Agent as a claim unless corroborated by NAVER-controlled network verification or request context.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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YetiMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +https://naver.me/spd); Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Yeti/1.1; +https://naver.me/spd) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +https://naver.me/spd)Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Yeti/1.1; +https://naver.me/spd) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 - Also known as
- Yeti/1.1; NAVER search robot
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- NAVER Search
- Purpose
- Naver search indexing
- Common Use
- NAVER search crawling and indexing.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the documented Yeti/1.1 identity. Treat the User-Agent as a claim unless corroborated by NAVER-controlled network verification or request context.
- Detection Notes
- NAVER identifies Yeti as its search robot, notes that version components may change, and recommends robots.txt rather than IP-only blocking.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: Yeti Disallow: /- Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Yeti [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Yeti") { return 403; }