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YouBot

You.com's crawler, named by its user agent only. Nothing can prove it.

Vendor
You.com
Agent type
Search crawlerIndex pages so an AI assistant can find and cite them when people ask.
Can be verified by
Can't be verifiedThe vendor publishes nothing a visit can be checked against. A visitor using this name can be named, never proven.
How sure we are
ProbableCredible secondary sources describe it; the vendor has not documented it.
Last reviewed
Vendor documentation
The vendor has no public page for it

Tokens to look for

User-Agent tokens

Appear in the User-Agent header of its requests.

  • YouBot

robots.txt tokens

No robots.txt token is documented for it.

Check a visitor claiming to be YouBot

We've filled in its token. Paste the full User-Agent from your logs and the address it came from for a real answer.

Paste the full User-Agent header from your logs. A single token such as GPTBot works too.

Optional

IPv4 or IPv6, as your logs show it. Used only for this check and never stored. Without it, a claim can only come back as can't be verified.

What this means for your site

YouBot decides whether an AI assistant can find your pages and cite them. If it can't read your site, the assistant answers about your category without you.

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