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YandexImages

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Verify 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.

This bot does not honor Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexImages/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
Example user agent strings for YandexImages

Robots.txt Configuration for YandexImages

Robots.txt User-Agent:YandexImages

Use 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: 10

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