Yext Inc

Review

Yext Inc is a search crawler from Yext used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness.

User-Agent

YextBot

User-agent strings are identity signals, not proof of identity. Confirm the source and behavior before trusting a request.

Verification and Detection

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

Yext Inc traffic is primarily detected by the `YextBot` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/87.0.4280.88 YextBot/Java Safari/537.36`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Yext infrastructure before trusting the traffic.

Handling Guidance

Use this record as identity context. Verify the request source, behavior, and relevance to your site before allowing or restricting traffic.

Yext Inc is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.

Record Details

Type: search
Operator: Yext
Family: Yext
Kind: Crawler
Purpose: Indexing
Identity: Verified Bot
Detection confidence: Medium
Spoofing risk: Yext Inc Has Medium Spoofing Risk Because User Agent Strings Can Be Copied; Pair The Match With DNS, IP, Behavior, Or Operator Evidence.
Status: Active
Respects robots.txt: Unknown
Last verified: 2026 04 01

Robots.txt Snippet

User-agent: YextBot
Disallow: /