YouBot

Safe Block: Depends Verified robots.txt: No

You.com Search Engine Crawler

Key facts

Operator: You.com
Family: You.com
Purpose: Search
User-Agent: YouBot
Should you block it?: Depends
Verified: Yes
Respects robots.txt: No
Identity type: Official Documented
Confidence: High
Last verified: 2026-04-01

Bot details

Identity

User-Agent: YouBot
robots.txt token: YouBot
HTTP user-agent: 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

Ownership

Operator: You.com
Family: You.com
Type: Search
Purpose: Search

Verification and trust

Source type: Official
Confidence: High
Last verified: 2026-04-01
Verification: Listed by Cloudflare Radar as a verified bot; match the published robots.txt token and user-agent pattern. Cross-check the operator documentation linked in the source field when available.
Operator URL: https://docs.you.com/youbot
Source URL: https://docs.you.com/youbot

Blocking and detection

Robots

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

(http.user_agent contains "YouBot")

Advanced server rules

Apache

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

Nginx

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

Notes

YouBot is a verified bot listed by Cloudflare Radar. Category: Search Engine Crawler. You.com Search Engine Crawler Cloudflare Radar page: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory/youbot

Evidence and source

Listed by Cloudflare Radar as a verified bot; match the published robots.txt token and user-agent pattern. Cross-check the operator documentation linked in the source field when available.

https://docs.you.com/youbot

Key facts

Bot details

Identity

Ownership

Verification and trust

Blocking and detection

Robots

Cloudflare

Apache

Nginx

Notes

Evidence and source

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