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# YandexBot

> YandexBot is a search engine crawler run by Yandex. Yandex's main indexing robot for Yandex Search.

- Operator: Yandex
- Kind: Search engine crawler
- robots.txt token: YandexBot
- Follows robots.txt: yes
- Source: https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots.html (checked 2026-11-05)
- Page: https://invisit.dev/bots/yandexbot

## What is YandexBot?

Yandex's main indexing robot for Yandex Search.

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

Several other Yandex robots, such as YandexAccessibilityBot and YandexMobileBot, ignore rules under User-agent: *, so name them directly to restrict them. Yandex does not publish its crawler IP list.

- [Yandex’s documentation](https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots.html)

## YandexBot user agent

Yandex documents this user agent for YandexBot. Version numbers in it change over time, so match on the name, not the whole string.

```
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
```

## Should you block YandexBot?

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

## How to block YandexBot 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: YandexBot
Disallow: /
```

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

## How to verify a request is really YandexBot

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

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

## See when YandexBot 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 YandexBot?

YandexBot is a search engine crawler run by Yandex. Yandex's main indexing robot for Yandex Search.

### Is YandexBot 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 YandexBot?

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