Yahoo Link Preview

Listed only

Yahoo Link Preview fetches a page when a Yahoo Mail user includes its URL in an email message, generating a thumbnail, title and description preview. It fetches only user-referenced pages rather than crawling the web.

Operated by Yahoo · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

regexYahoo Link Preview
observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo Link Preview; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/yahoo-link-preview-SLN23615.html)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
Verifiable
Operator publishes no verification path
Respects robots.txt
Does not honor robots.txt
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.