Yandex
Verified search engineSearch indexing crawler
Identification
- User-Agent token
- YandexBot
- Published IP ranges
- 16
- Operator documentation
- https://yandex.ru/ips
Requests claiming this User-Agent are verified against the operator's published ranges.
robots.txt behaviour
- Honours robots.txt
- Yes
- Honours crawl-delay
- Yes
- Honours Allow rules
- Yes
- Reads Sitemap directives
- Yes
Observed activity
- Distinct IPs observed
- 667
- TLS fingerprints observed
- 16
- First seen
- 2026-05-21
- Last seen
- 2026-10-17
Aggregated across traffic monitored by urlcap. Updated continuously.
Where it crawls from
Top countries (by distinct IPs)
RU
642
TR
16
DE
9
Top networks
Unknown network
667
Verify Yandex on your own traffic
One API call checks a visitor's IP against published ranges, reverse DNS and TLS fingerprints — so spoofed User-Agents don't fool you.