YouBot: a search crawler run by You.com
YouBot is a search crawler. It reads pages for the index behind this product: You.com answers. Operator: You.com.
At a glance
- Operator
- You.com
- robots.txt token
YouBot- Purpose
- Search. Search crawlers read pages to build the index an assistant searches when it answers. A page they cannot read cannot be found or cited in those answers.
- What it feeds
- You.com answers
What blocking it changes
If you keep YouBot out, your pages cannot be found and cited in the search answers of this product: You.com answers.
User agent
The full user agent, from the operator’s documentation. A request from YouBot carries this text, and a server log shows it.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YouBot/1.0; +https://about.you.com/youbot/)robots.txt lines for YouBot
robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of a site (yoursite.com/robots.txt). A group starts with one or more User-agent lines that name crawlers, followed by Allow and Disallow lines for paths. A crawler named in a group follows the groups that name it and ignores the group for every crawler (User-agent: *).
To let it in
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /To keep it out
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /Does your site let it in?
The free crawler check reads your robots.txt for YouBot and requests your page with its user agent, so it shows whether a robots.txt rule or a firewall turns it away.