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YandexMobileScreenShotBot

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Verify YandexMobileScreenShotBot 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.

YandexMobileScreenShotBot is a Yandex crawler used to capture mobile-rendered screenshots of webpages for use in Yandex Search and preview features. It simulates a smartphone browser to render pages as mobile users would see them. The bot fetches HTML, executes basic rendering, and captures visual snapshots to support rich previews and usability assessments. Crawl activity is targeted and relatively low-volume, focused on pages where visual representation or mobile preview quality is important within Yandex’s ecosystem. It ignores the global robots.txt user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies YandexMobileScreenShotBot using Yandex’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine YandexMobileScreenShotBot traffic is identified.

This bot does not honor Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

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

Robots.txt Configuration for YandexMobileScreenShotBot

Robots.txt User-Agent:YandexMobileScreenShotBot

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

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for YandexMobileScreenShotBot:

User-agent: YandexMobileScreenShotBot
Allow: /

Completely Block YandexMobileScreenShotBot

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: YandexMobileScreenShotBot
Disallow: /

Completely Allow YandexMobileScreenShotBot

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: YandexMobileScreenShotBot
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

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

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

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

Set Crawl Delay

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

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

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