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You.comAI search crawler

YouBot

YouBot is a reported You.com crawler string associated with web search and AI answer retrieval. This record has no current You.com source, so treat a matching request as unverified.

Needed to be found and cited in You.com.

Get the robots.txt ruleRecord source
Is YouBot allowed on your site?
  • YouBotSearch
    Not checked

Reads your live robots.txt and applies the same rules these crawlers use. Nothing is stored.

robots.txt token
YouBot
Follows robots.txt
Not documented
How to verify it
Not published
Last checked
18 August 2026

Should you block YouBot?

You can, but it may not listen. You.com has not documented YouBot, so treat any rule as a request. The former operator page is no longer available, so a matching string should not be attributed to You.com without separate verification.

About robots.txtYou.com has not documented whether YouBot follows robots.txt, so a rule is a request, not a guarantee.

robots.txt
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

Asks YouBot not to crawl any page. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your site, above any wider rules.

Ignored robots.txt?

Allowing YouBot only creates the possibility of retrieval. To find out whether your pages are selected, measure which answer engines actually cite your pages using a stable query set.

Spot it in your logs.

Match the name, then check where the request came from. Anyone can copy a user-agent.

Reported user-agentsource
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YouBot (+http://www.you.com))

This string comes from a public crawler registry or observed naming, not current operator documentation.

  1. 1

    Match the name

    Search your server or CDN log for YouBot, case-insensitive. A match is a clue, not proof.

  2. 2

    Check the source

    You.com publishes no IP ranges, reverse DNS or signatures for YouBot in the sources here, so it cannot be verified. Treat matches as unconfirmed.

Serve the content in HTML

The cited operator material does not verify JavaScript rendering. Serve useful HTML before client-side JavaScript where possible.

You.com’s former crawler page now returns 404. This entry remains reported rather than operator verified until current documentation is published.

How active is YouBot?

Measured across the sites connected to Trakkr, 27 July 2026 to 25 October 2026.

39%

of connected sites saw YouBot in the four weeks to 25 October 2026. That is 40 of 104.

100%75%50%25%35%
YouBot visited between 23% and 40% of connected sites each week from 27 July 2026 to 25 October 2026.

Share of connected sites it visited each week

Rank by reach
10 of 26
Typical site, per week
63 requests
Sites reached, 13 weeks
47 of 135

Most widespread AI crawlers

Share of connected sites each one visited, last four weeks.

  1. 1OAI-SearchBot84%
  2. 2ClaudeBot84%
  3. 3GPTBot67%
  4. 4Amazonbot61%
  5. 5ChatGPT-User56%
  6. 6PerplexityBot56%
  7. 7Applebot51%
  8. 10YouBot39%
All 26 measured crawlers
How this is measured

Finalized daily crawler summaries from sites connected to Trakkr, grouped by the crawler named in each request. Trakkr’s own site is excluded. A site counts as reached in a week when it logged at least one request from YouBot. The typical figure is the median weekly requests among the sites it reached.

  • This is a sample of connected sites, not the whole web.
  • A matching user-agent does not prove the named operator sent the request.
  • Requests are not unique pages, training use or citations.
  • Crawlers seen on fewer than 10 sites are not shown. Classic search crawlers such as Googlebot are not collected on every site, so they are left out.

Questions, answered.

YouBot is a reported You.com crawler string associated with web search and AI answer retrieval. This record has no current You.com source, so treat a matching request as unverified.

Sources.

Reported, not operator verified. Operator facts and Trakkr’s measurements keep separate dates.

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    Reported crawler reference

    Reported, not operator verified · checked 18 August 2026

    developers.cloudflare.com/ai-crawl-control/reference/bots/

Last source check 18 August 2026. Activity measured to 25 October 2026.

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