yacy User-Agent & Blocking Rules

Operated by YaCy Community

Scrapers Caution

What is yacy?

YaCy is a distributed, peer-to-peer search engine. Users run their own crawler nodes.

Owner YaCy Community
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Test if yacy can access your URL

Enter URL to test if yacy is allowed or blocked.

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Is yacy Safe?

It is recommended to use caution with yacy.

This bot may have legitimate uses but can be resource-intensive or used for competitive intelligence.

For more information about our safety badges, visit our documentation.

User-Agent String used by yacy

yacy

How to Block yacy?

Add the following standard robots.txt rule to prevent yacy from accessing your site.

User-agent: yacy
Disallow: /