Bots by company
Yahoo bots and crawlers
Yahoo runs Yahoo Search, whose results are powered by Bing, and other web services.
Yahoo bots at a glance
- Yahoo runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Search Engine Crawlers.
- Each Yahoo bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.yahoo.com
Every Yahoo bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yahoo! SlurpSlurp | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all Yahoo bots
The rules below name every Yahoo 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 Yahoo bots
User-agent: Slurp
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Yahoo bots
User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Yahoo bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Slurp
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Yahoo bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Slurp)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Yahoo bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Slurp) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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