YandexScreenshotBot

Yandex · Tools and frameworks · json

User-agent: YandexScreenshotBot
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenYandexScreenshotBot
User-agent containsYandexScreenshotBot
OperatorYandex
CategoryTools and frameworks
robots.txtignores the * group; obeys rules named for its own token
Verify byreverse DNS

What it is

Takes a screenshot of a page. Documented as not taking the general robots.txt rules into account.

What blocking it costs you

Yandex surfaces that show a page thumbnail show nothing for you.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 (compatible; YandexScreenshotBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)

Allow it instead

User-agent: YandexScreenshotBot
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 · maximum-ai-visibility