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YandexVideo

Operated by YandexSearch
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Verify YandexVideo 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.

YandexVideo is Yandex’s crawler responsible for discovering and indexing video content for Yandex Video search. It fetches pages and video files to analyze video metadata, thumbnails, captions, structured data, and surrounding context. This crawler determines how videos are categorized and displayed in Yandex’s video search results. It allows site owners to control video indexing independently from standard web crawling. Crawl activity is asset-focused and periodic, prioritizing pages that host or reference video content. Its role is to keep Yandex’s video search index accurate, fresh, and aligned with user video queries. It honors the global robots.txt user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies YandexVideo using Yandex’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine YandexVideo traffic is identified.

This bot does not honor Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

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

Robots.txt Configuration for YandexVideo

Robots.txt User-Agent:YandexVideo

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

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for YandexVideo:

User-agent: YandexVideo
Allow: /

Completely Block YandexVideo

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: YandexVideo
Disallow: /

Completely Allow YandexVideo

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: YandexVideo
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

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

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

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

Set Crawl Delay

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

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

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