Verified Bots Directory

Directory / Feed fetchers

YandexFeed

Verifiable

A Yandex robot that downloads structured data from links website owners have themselves submitted to Yandex services. Yandex's robot table records that it makes no indexing requests and does not follow the general robots.txt rules.

Operated by Yandex · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexYandexFeed/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexFeed/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)

How to verify

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

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

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.yandex.ru, *.yandex.net, *.yandex.com

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Verifiable

  • 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.