YandexVideo

Crawls videos for Yandex video search.

Follows robots.txt

User agent token: YandexVideo
Operator: Yandex
Verification: reverse DNS yandex.ru, yandex.net, yandex.com
Source: Yandex documentation

What a search engine crawler does

A search engine crawler indexes pages for regular search results. Blocking it removes the site from that engine, so most sites keep it allowed.

Block or allow YandexVideo in robots.txt

Add one of these to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Crawlers read it before they fetch anything else.

Block YandexVideo

User-agent: YandexVideo
Disallow: /

Allow YandexVideo

User-agent: YandexVideo
Allow: /

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Questions, answered.

YandexVideo is a search engine crawler run by Yandex. Crawls videos for Yandex video search.

Yes. Yandex says YandexVideo follows robots.txt.

Add "User-agent: YandexVideo" and "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt.

Run a reverse DNS lookup on the IP. A real request resolves to yandex.ru, yandex.net, yandex.com, and a forward lookup of that name returns the same IP.

Yes. YandexVideo indexes pages for Yandex's search results, which send people to your site.

Usually not. Blocking YandexVideo removes your pages from its search results.

In its own documentation at https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots. Every fact on this page comes from there.

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