YouBot

You.com · AI search crawlers · json

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenYouBot
User-agent containsYouBot
OperatorYou.com
CategoryAI search crawlers
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify byno published verification method

What it is

You.com's crawler, feeding its AI search product and its search API.

What blocking it costs you

Removal from You.com's index and from answers built on its API.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YouBot (+http://www.you.com))

Allow it instead

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://about.you.com/youbot/
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-all-ai · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility