Verified Bots Directory

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YandexMarket

Verifiable

The robot used by Yandex Market, Yandex's shopping service. Yandex's robot table lists two versions with different robots.txt behaviour — version 1.0 follows the general rules and version 2.0 does not — so this entry records the more permissive of the two.

Operated by Yandex · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexYandexMarket/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexMarket/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexMarket/2.0; +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.