Search engines
YandexBot
Yandex's main indexing robot for the Yandex search engine; Yandex runs many other specialised robots (YandexImages, YandexMobileBot, etc.).
Dossier
- Operator
- Yandex
- Documentation
- yandex.com
- robots.txt token
YandexBotYandex- Feeds
- search index
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes, per its documentationYandexBot follows general robots.txt rules; some other Yandex robots (e.g. YaDirectFetcher, YandexMetrika) ignore them under conditions.
- How to verify
- Reverse DNSyandex.com
- Names in our logs
yandexbot- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 4,397
- Days active
- 82 / 93
- First seen
- 23 Jul 2026
- Last seen
- 22 Oct 2026
Regularsearch_crawler
Identity check claimed vs verified
- verified534 reqforward confirmed rdns
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- Content pages471
- Feeds & discovery22
- Machine-consumption0
471 unique materials · 483 canonical pages
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- yandex.comyandex.com/support/webmaster/en/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots.html