AI BOTS · YOU.COM
YouBot
Crawlers and fetchers behind AI products: model training, AI search and assistants that fetch a page for a user.
- Follows robots.txt
- Cannot be verified
- Docs checked 28 Oct 2026
- UnverifiedIdentityNo published check
- Obeysrobots.txtFollows robots.txt
- PurposeAI search retrievalFor an AI product
- TokenYouBotUse it in a User-agent line
robots.txt
The operator documents that this bot follows robots.txt rules.
Block YouBot
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /Allow YouBot
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /Quick facts
- robots.txt token
YouBot- User agent contains
- YouBot
- Operator
- You.com
- Category
- AI bots
- Purpose
- AI search retrieval
- robots.txt
- Follows robots.txt
- Verification
- Cannot be verified
- Documentation
- about.you.com · checked 28 Oct 2026
If you block it
Your pages can stop appearing, or being cited, in this product’s AI answers.
Check a visit is real
- No published way to check it. A request using this name is only a claim.
Where this comes from
The same registry NdovuSEOLabs uses to classify crawler traffic in your server and CDN logs, built from the operator’s own documentation.
Registry version 2026-10-29.1
See which of these crawlers visit your site.
Crawl Analytics reads your own server and CDN logs and checks each claim against the operator’s published IP ranges and DNS.