YouBot
Crawls for You.com's AI search engine.
| robots.txt token | YouBot |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes |
| Verification | Documented by You.com |
| Our recommendation | Allow — Small but citing search engine — low cost, some upside. |
Block YouBot with robots.txt
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /robots.txt is a request, not a wall — requests claiming to be YouBot from unverified networks should be treated as bad bots. How to verify crawlers by network →
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