YaK

Meltwater · Corpus and dataset builders · json

User-agent: YaK
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenYaK
User-agent containsYaK
OperatorMeltwater
CategoryCorpus and dataset builders
robots.txtoperator publishes no robots.txt statement
Verify byno published verification method

What it is

Meltwater's crawler, feeding the live data stream behind its media-monitoring and consumer-intelligence suite.

What blocking it costs you

Your content stops appearing in Meltwater's media monitoring — which is how PR teams find out you were mentioned. Some publishers want to be in it.

Full user-agent string

YaK

Allow it instead

User-agent: YaK
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://www.meltwater.com/en/suite/consumer-intelligence
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-all-ai · block-datasets · maximum-ai-visibility