Verified Bots Directory

Directory / Search engines

Yeti

Verifiable

Naver's web crawler, fetching pages for Naver Search indexing across South Korea's largest search engine.

Operated by Naver · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexYeti/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +http://naver.me/spd)
  • observedMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Yeti/1.1; +https://naver.me/spd) Chrome/106.0.5249.0 Safari/537.36

How to verify

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

dig -x <client-ip> +short   # expect a hostname matching *.naver.com

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.naver.com

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: Yeti)

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.