Bots by company
Yandex bots and crawlers
Yandex runs the largest search engine in Russia and the YandexGPT models.
Yandex bots at a glance
- Yandex runs 36 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Ads and Platform Fetchers, Search Engine Crawlers, AI Training Crawlers.
- Each Yandex bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: yandex.com
Every Yandex bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YaDirectFetcher | Ads and Platform Fetchers | AdsOfficial docs | No | Allow |
| YandexAccessibilityBot | Search Engine Crawlers | Product featureOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexAdditional | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingAI searchOfficial docs | Yes | Your choice |
| YandexAdNet | Ads and Platform Fetchers | AdsOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexBlogs | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexBot | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexCheckBot | Search Engine Crawlers | Product featureOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexComBot | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexDirect | Ads and Platform Fetchers | AdsOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexDirectDyn | Ads and Platform Fetchers | AdsOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexFavicons | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexFeed | Ads and Platform Fetchers | Product featureOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexImageResizer | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexImages | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexMarket | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexMedia | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexMetrika | Ads and Platform Fetchers | Product featureOfficial docs | No | Allow |
| YandexMobileBot | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexMobileScreenShotBot | Search Engine Crawlers | Product featureOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexOntoDB | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexOntoDBAPI | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexPagechecker | Search Engine Crawlers | Product featureOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexPartner | Ads and Platform Fetchers | AdsOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexRCA | Search Engine Crawlers | Link previewOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexRenderResourcesBot | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexScreenshotBot | Search Engine Crawlers | Product featureOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexSearchShop | Ads and Platform Fetchers | Product featureOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexSitelinks | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexSpravBot | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexTracker | Ads and Platform Fetchers | Product featureOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexUserproxy | Ads and Platform Fetchers | Product featureOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexVerticals | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexVertis | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexVideo | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| YandexVideoParser | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Not for user-requested fetches | Allow |
| YandexWebmaster | Search Engine Crawlers | Product featureOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all Yandex bots
The rules below name every Yandex 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 Yandex bots
User-agent: YaDirectFetcher
User-agent: YandexAccessibilityBot
User-agent: YandexAdditional
User-agent: YandexAdNet
User-agent: YandexBlogs
User-agent: YandexBot
User-agent: YandexCheckBot
User-agent: YandexComBot
User-agent: YandexDirect
User-agent: YandexDirectDyn
User-agent: YandexFavicons
User-agent: YandexFeed
User-agent: YandexImageResizer
User-agent: YandexImages
User-agent: YandexMarket
User-agent: YandexMedia
User-agent: YandexMetrika
User-agent: YandexMobileBot
User-agent: YandexMobileScreenShotBot
User-agent: YandexOntoDB
User-agent: YandexOntoDBAPI
User-agent: YandexPagechecker
User-agent: YandexPartner
User-agent: YandexRCA
User-agent: YandexRenderResourcesBot
User-agent: YandexScreenshotBot
User-agent: YandexSearchShop
User-agent: YandexSitelinks
User-agent: YandexSpravBot
User-agent: YandexTracker
User-agent: YandexUserproxy
User-agent: YandexVerticals
User-agent: YandexVertis
User-agent: YandexVideo
User-agent: YandexVideoParser
User-agent: YandexWebmaster
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Yandex bots
User-agent: YaDirectFetcher
User-agent: YandexAccessibilityBot
User-agent: YandexAdditional
User-agent: YandexAdNet
User-agent: YandexBlogs
User-agent: YandexBot
User-agent: YandexCheckBot
User-agent: YandexComBot
User-agent: YandexDirect
User-agent: YandexDirectDyn
User-agent: YandexFavicons
User-agent: YandexFeed
User-agent: YandexImageResizer
User-agent: YandexImages
User-agent: YandexMarket
User-agent: YandexMedia
User-agent: YandexMetrika
User-agent: YandexMobileBot
User-agent: YandexMobileScreenShotBot
User-agent: YandexOntoDB
User-agent: YandexOntoDBAPI
User-agent: YandexPagechecker
User-agent: YandexPartner
User-agent: YandexRCA
User-agent: YandexRenderResourcesBot
User-agent: YandexScreenshotBot
User-agent: YandexSearchShop
User-agent: YandexSitelinks
User-agent: YandexSpravBot
User-agent: YandexTracker
User-agent: YandexUserproxy
User-agent: YandexVerticals
User-agent: YandexVertis
User-agent: YandexVideo
User-agent: YandexVideoParser
User-agent: YandexWebmaster
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Yandex bots out of private areas only
User-agent: YaDirectFetcher
User-agent: YandexAccessibilityBot
User-agent: YandexAdditional
User-agent: YandexAdNet
User-agent: YandexBlogs
User-agent: YandexBot
User-agent: YandexCheckBot
User-agent: YandexComBot
User-agent: YandexDirect
User-agent: YandexDirectDyn
User-agent: YandexFavicons
User-agent: YandexFeed
User-agent: YandexImageResizer
User-agent: YandexImages
User-agent: YandexMarket
User-agent: YandexMedia
User-agent: YandexMetrika
User-agent: YandexMobileBot
User-agent: YandexMobileScreenShotBot
User-agent: YandexOntoDB
User-agent: YandexOntoDBAPI
User-agent: YandexPagechecker
User-agent: YandexPartner
User-agent: YandexRCA
User-agent: YandexRenderResourcesBot
User-agent: YandexScreenshotBot
User-agent: YandexSearchShop
User-agent: YandexSitelinks
User-agent: YandexSpravBot
User-agent: YandexTracker
User-agent: YandexUserproxy
User-agent: YandexVerticals
User-agent: YandexVertis
User-agent: YandexVideo
User-agent: YandexVideoParser
User-agent: YandexWebmaster
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Yandex bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(YaDirectFetcher|YandexAccessibilityBot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdNet|YandexBlogs|YandexBot|YandexCheckBot|YandexComBot|YandexDirect|YandexDirectDyn|YandexFavicons|YandexFeed|YandexImageResizer|YandexImages|YandexMarket|YandexMedia|YandexMetrika|YandexMobileBot|YandexMobileScreenShotBot|YandexOntoDB|YandexOntoDBAPI|YandexPagechecker|YandexPartner|YandexRCA|YandexRenderResourcesBot|YandexScreenshotBot|YandexSearchShop|YandexSitelinks|YandexSpravBot|YandexTracker|YandexUserproxy|YandexVerticals|YandexVertis|YandexVideo|YandexVideoParser|YandexWebmaster)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Yandex bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (YaDirectFetcher|YandexAccessibilityBot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdNet|YandexBlogs|YandexBot|YandexCheckBot|YandexComBot|YandexDirect|YandexDirectDyn|YandexFavicons|YandexFeed|YandexImageResizer|YandexImages|YandexMarket|YandexMedia|YandexMetrika|YandexMobileBot|YandexMobileScreenShotBot|YandexOntoDB|YandexOntoDBAPI|YandexPagechecker|YandexPartner|YandexRCA|YandexRenderResourcesBot|YandexScreenshotBot|YandexSearchShop|YandexSitelinks|YandexSpravBot|YandexTracker|YandexUserproxy|YandexVerticals|YandexVertis|YandexVideo|YandexVideoParser|YandexWebmaster) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "YaDirectFetcher") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexAccessibilityBot") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexAdditional") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexAdNet") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexBlogs") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexBot") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexCheckBot") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexComBot") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexDirect") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexDirectDyn") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexFavicons") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexFeed") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexImageResizer") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexImages") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexMarket") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexMedia") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexMetrika") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexMobileBot") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexMobileScreenShotBot") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexOntoDB") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexOntoDBAPI") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexPagechecker") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexPartner") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexRCA") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexRenderResourcesBot") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexScreenshotBot") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexSearchShop") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexSitelinks") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexSpravBot") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexTracker") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexUserproxy") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexVerticals") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexVertis") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexVideo") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexVideoParser") or (http.user_agent contains "YandexWebmaster")See which of these bots actually reach your website
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