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YouBot

Crawler that powers the You.com search engine, discovering and indexing pages for its search results.

robots.txt name

YouBot

User agent

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; YouBot/1.0; +https://docs.you.com/youbot; env:prod) Chrome/X.X.X.X Safari/537.36

Category

Search indexes: Crawl the web to build the index of a search engine or AI search.

Follows robots.txt

Yes

Official documentation

https://docs.you.com/youbot

Published IP ranges

https://docs.you.com/youbot

Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.

Block or allow it in robots.txt

Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

To allow it everywhere except one folder:

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /private/

Is it really this bot?

Anyone can copy a user agent. To be sure a request comes from You.com, compare its IP address with the ranges the company publishes.