Yandex bots

2 bots in the directory · Reviewed July 2026

Yandex operates 2 bots tracked in this directory. Each page below covers what the bot does and how to identify it.

YandexAdditional

Collects web content for Yandex's YandexGPT and generative AI products.

AI Training

YandexBot

Yandex's primary search-index crawler.

Search Engine

Control every Yandex bot at once

robots.txt lets one rule group target multiple user-agents. These snippets cover all 2 Yandex tokens in this directory. For finer control, set rules per bot on each bot's page.

Allow all Yandex bots

User-agent: YandexAdditional
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

Block all Yandex bots

User-agent: YandexAdditional
User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

Careful: this group includes a search engine crawler. Blocking it removes you from traditional search rankings and the AI answers built on that index, not just AI features.

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