About this bot
YouBot is associated with You.com and is used for ai search indexing.
The primary identity signal is YouBot. Representative HTTP identity: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; YouBot/1.0; +https://docs.you.com/youbot; env:prod) Chrome/X.X.X.X Safari/537.36.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: http message signature.
robots.txt behavior: respected under the `YouBot` token.
Verification: Use `YouBot` to identify candidate traffic, then validate the cryptographic request identity when a signed request is available.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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YouBotMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; YouBot/1.0; +https://docs.you.com/youbot; env:prod) Chrome/X.X.X.X Safari/537.36
Details
- Kind
- Search crawler
- Family
- YouBot
- Purpose
- AI search indexing
- Common Use
- building and refreshing search results and AI-assisted retrieval for You.com
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- HTTP message signature
- Evidence Method
- Use `YouBot` to identify candidate traffic, then validate the cryptographic request identity when a signed request is available.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `YouBot` User-Agent token. Prefer the signed request identity when present.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: YouBot Disallow: /