YandexAdditionalBot

Yandex · AI training crawlers · json

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenYandexAdditionalBot
User-agent containsYandexAdditionalBot
OperatorYandex
CategoryAI training crawlers
robots.txtignores the * group; obeys rules named for its own token
Verify byreverse DNS

What it is

The second token Yandex publishes for the same AI-answers opt-out. Both names appear in Yandex's own robot list, so a robots.txt that names only one of them is half a policy.

What blocking it costs you

Same as YandexAdditional: out of Yandex's AI answers, still in Yandex Search. Name both tokens or neither.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexAdditionalBot/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)

Allow it instead

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-ai-training · block-all-ai · maximum-ai-visibility