yacybot User-Agent & Blocking Rules

Operated by YaCy Community

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What is yacybot?

The bot user-agent for YaCy crawler nodes.

Owner YaCy Community
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Test if yacybot can access your URL

Enter URL to test if yacybot is allowed or blocked.

https://
yacybot is  ...

Is yacybot Safe?

It is recommended to use caution with yacybot.

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 yacybot

yacybot

How to Block yacybot?

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

User-agent: yacybot
Disallow: /