YandexImages
SearchVerify YandexImages 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.
YandexImages is Yandex’s crawler responsible for discovering and indexing image content for Yandex Images and related visual search services. It fetches image files along with surrounding page context, captions, alt text, and structured data to understand relevance and quality. Crawl activity is typically lightweight and asset-focused, revisiting images based on page updates and popularity signals. Its purpose is to keep Yandex’s image search index accurate, fresh, and useful for users searching visually across Yandex’s ecosystem. It observes the global robots.txt user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies YandexImages using Yandex’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine YandexImages traffic is identified.
User Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexImages/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)Robots.txt Configuration for YandexImages
YandexImagesUse this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target YandexImages.
Recommended Configuration
Our recommended robots.txt configuration for YandexImages:
User-agent: YandexImages
Allow: /Completely Block YandexImages
Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:
User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /Completely Allow YandexImages
Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:
User-agent: YandexImages
Allow: /Block Specific Paths
Block this bot from specific directories or pages:
User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/Allow Only Specific Paths
Block everything but allow specific directories:
User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/Set Crawl Delay
Limit how frequently YandexImages can request pages (in seconds):
User-agent: YandexImages
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10Note: This bot does not officially mention about honoring Crawl-Delay rule.