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YandexScreenshotBot

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Verify YandexScreenshotBot 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.

YandexScreenshotBot is a Yandex crawler used to capture visual screenshots of webpages for previews and diagnostic purposes. It renders pages to take static images that represent how content appears to users. These screenshots may be used in search previews, Webmaster tools, or internal evaluation systems. The bot does not index content for search ranking and does not perform broad crawling. Crawl activity is targeted and low-volume, typically triggered when Yandex needs to create or refresh a visual snapshot of a specific page. It ignores the global robots.txt user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies YandexScreenshotBot using Yandex’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine YandexScreenshotBot traffic is identified.

This bot does not honor Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z* Safari/537.36 (compatible; YandexScreenshotBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
Example user agent strings for YandexScreenshotBot

Robots.txt Configuration for YandexScreenshotBot

Robots.txt User-Agent:YandexScreenshotBot

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

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for YandexScreenshotBot:

User-agent: YandexScreenshotBot
Allow: /

Completely Block YandexScreenshotBot

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: YandexScreenshotBot
Disallow: /

Completely Allow YandexScreenshotBot

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: YandexScreenshotBot
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

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

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

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

Set Crawl Delay

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

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

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