Bots by company
VK bots and crawlers
VK runs the VK and Odnoklassniki social networks and the Mail.ru portal in Russia.
VK bots at a glance
- VK runs 3 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Search Engine Crawlers, Social and Messaging Previews.
- Each VK bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: vk.company
Every VK bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mail.RU_Bot | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexReported | Not documented | Allow |
| OdklBot | Social and Messaging Previews | Link previewReported | Not documented | Allow |
| vkShare | Social and Messaging Previews | Link previewReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all VK bots
The rules below name every VK token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all VK bots
User-agent: Mail.RU_Bot
User-agent: OdklBot
User-agent: vkShare
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all VK bots
User-agent: Mail.RU_Bot
User-agent: OdklBot
User-agent: vkShare
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all VK bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Mail.RU_Bot
User-agent: OdklBot
User-agent: vkShare
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all VK bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Mail\.RU_Bot|OdklBot|vkShare)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all VK bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Mail\.RU_Bot|OdklBot|vkShare) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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