{
 "slug": "yandexbot",
 "name": "YandexBot",
 "operator": "Yandex",
 "operator_slug": "yandex",
 "category": "search",
 "category_label": "Search engines",
 "robots_token": "YandexBot",
 "user_agent_substring": "YandexBot",
 "user_agent_example": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)",
 "respects_robots_txt": "documented",
 "respects_robots_txt_label": "obeys robots.txt (documented)",
 "verification_method": "reverse-dns",
 "verification_label": "reverse DNS",
 "published_ip_ranges_url": null,
 "ip_ranges_endpoint": null,
 "ipv4_prefix_count": 0,
 "ipv6_prefix_count": 0,
 "what_it_is": "Yandex's search crawler, which also feeds Alice and Yandex's generative answers.",
 "cost_of_blocking": "Removal from Yandex Search. Verify with reverse DNS to a yandex.ru, yandex.net or yandex.com host — YandexBot is among the most-spoofed user-agents there is.",
 "operator_docs": "https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots.html",
 "html_url": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/yandexbot.html",
 "json_url": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/yandexbot.json",
 "last_reviewed": "2026-09-01"
}