AI search & answer engines

YouBot

You.com's web crawler that discovers and indexes public pages to return real-time results in You.com's AI search.

Dossier

Operator: You.com
Documentation: you.com
robots.txt token: YouBot
Feeds: search index
Follows robots.txt: Yes, per its documentationHonors robots.txt incl. crawl-delay; caches robots.txt for 30 minutes.
How to verify: Published IP ranges and reverse DNSyou.com
Names in our logs: youbot
Researched: 23 Oct 2026

Observed on New Runtime

Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…

Requests: 8
Days active: 2 / 93
First seen: 25 Sept 2026
Last seen: 21 Oct 2026

Returningother_bot

Daily requests across the observed window, square-root scale.

Identity check claimed vs verified

No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.

What it reads crawler journeys · current window

The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.

Sources

you.comyou.com/docs/youbot

Who read this page?Machine requests, hidden until opened

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