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# Yeti

> Yeti is a search engine crawler run by Naver. Naver's search robot, called Yeti, which collects web documents for Naver search.

- Operator: Naver
- Kind: Search engine crawler
- robots.txt token: Yeti
- Follows robots.txt: yes
- Source: https://searchadvisor.naver.com/guide/seo-basic-firewall (checked 2026-11-05)
- Page: https://invisit.dev/bots/naver-yeti

## What is Yeti?

Naver's search robot, called Yeti, which collects web documents for Naver search.

Crawls pages for a classic search index. Blocking it removes you from that search engine.

Naver says special-purpose robots, such as its ad robot (Ads-Naver) and link preview robot (Blueno), may not fully follow robots.txt.

- [Naver’s documentation](https://searchadvisor.naver.com/guide/seo-basic-firewall)

## Yeti user agent

Naver documents these user agents for Yeti. Version numbers in it change over time, so match on the name, not the whole string.

```
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Yeti/1.1; +https://naver.me/spd) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +https://naver.me/spd)
```

## Should you block Yeti?

Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.

## How to block Yeti in robots.txt

Add a group for its token to robots.txt at the root of your site.

A bot follows only the group that names it, so it ignores your `User-agent: *` rules once it has a group of its own. Repeat any paths you also want kept from it there.

```
User-agent: Yeti
Disallow: /
```

- [Build a robots.txt for AI bots](https://invisit.dev/tools/robots-txt-generator)

## How to verify a request is really Yeti

Anyone can send any user agent, so the string alone proves nothing.

Naver publishes the IP ranges Yeti crawls from. A request that claims to be Yeti from any other address is not Yeti.

Or check by reverse DNS: look up the hostname of the request’s IP, confirm it ends in `naver.com`, then look that hostname up again and confirm it points back to the same IP.

- [Yeti IP ranges](https://searchadvisor.naver.com/doc/naverbot.json)

## See when Yeti reads your site

Bots don’t run JavaScript analytics, so a script tag never sees them. invisit records crawler reads on the server instead, through its server SDK or a Cloudflare Worker, and shows which bots read which pages, next to your visitors.

- [Track crawlers with invisit](https://invisit.dev/docs/server/sdk#crawler-reads)

## Common questions

### What is Yeti?

Yeti is a search engine crawler run by Naver. Naver's search robot, called Yeti, which collects web documents for Naver search.

### Is Yeti safe to block?

Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.

### How do I block Yeti?

Add “User-agent: Yeti” followed by “Disallow: /” to your robots.txt.