Verified Bots Directory

Directory / Feed fetchers

YandexSearchShop

Verifiable

A Yandex robot that downloads product catalogs in YML files at the request of users. Yandex notes that these files are often placed in directories that are disallowed for indexing, and that the robot does not follow the general robots.txt rules.

Operated by Yandex · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexYandexSearchShop/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexSearchShop/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.