YandexBot

Yandex main web search crawler.

Mar 2015
first seen in our archive: 26
distinct User-Agents: 201K+
requests seen: search
category

Official: yandex.com/bots·Vendor: Yandex

Parse it

Send the User-Agent to the API, device, OS, browser, and bot detection come back in one response. YandexBot is identified by name when the string matches.

curl -s "https://api.parseapi.com/useragent" \
  -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PARSEAPI_KEY"

Create a free key Useragent API

Example User-Agents

Real strings from our archive that resolve to YandexBot. Each opens a full breakdown.

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)200K requests · first Mar 2016