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You.com bots and crawlers
You.com runs an AI search engine and assistant.
You.com bots at a glance
- You.com runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Search Crawlers.
- Each You.com bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: you.com
Every You.com bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouBot | AI Search Crawlers | AI searchReported | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all You.com bots
The rules below name every You.com 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 You.com bots
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all You.com bots
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all You.com bots out of private areas only
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all You.com bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(YouBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all You.com bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (YouBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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