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YandexAdditionalBot

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Verify YandexAdditionalBot IP Address

Verify if an IP address truly belongs to Yandex, using official verification methods. Enter both IP address and User-Agent from your logs for the most accurate bot verification.

YandexAdditionalBot is a Yandex service crawler used to interpret and apply robots.txt rules that control whether indexed page content can be used in Yandex AI-generated responses. It operates only on pages that have already been indexed by Yandex’s primary crawler and does not request new pages or trigger indexing. The bot analyzes access directives to ensure content usage complies with site owner preferences in AI features. Its activity is internal and policy-driven, supporting correct enforcement of robots-based restrictions for Yandex’s AI response systems. It ignores the global robots.txt user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies YandexAdditionalBot using Yandex’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine YandexAdditionalBot traffic is identified.

This bot does not honor Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

YandexAdditionalBot

YandexAdditionalBot/1.0

UserAgentFrom

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexAdditionalBot/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
Example user agent strings for YandexAdditionalBot

Robots.txt Configuration for YandexAdditionalBot

Robots.txt User-Agent:YandexAdditionalBot

Use this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target YandexAdditionalBot.

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for YandexAdditionalBot:

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Allow: /

Completely Block YandexAdditionalBot

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /

Completely Allow YandexAdditionalBot

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/

Set Crawl Delay

Limit how frequently YandexAdditionalBot can request pages (in seconds):

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

Note: This bot does not officially mention about honoring Crawl-Delay rule.