# YouBot

You.com's crawler: what it does, robots.txt handling per the operator, and observed behaviour on this property.

- Operator: You.com
- Purpose: AI search index | operator's words: "YouBot is the web crawler that powers the You.com search engine. It automatically discovers and indexes web pages to provide real-time, accurate search results for You.com users."
- robots.txt token: `YouBot`
- Appears in access logs: yes
- 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`
- robots.txt: Honors robots.txt. You.com's own words: YouBot fully respects robots.txt directives, including user-agent specific rules and crawl-delay settings.
- IP list: https://you.com/docs/youbot
- Verification: Requests come from 68.67.112.0/24, reverse DNS resolves as youbot-*.search.you.com, and You.com signs requests via Web Bot Auth. Contact per the docs: spider@you.com.
- Documentation: https://you.com/docs/youbot (read 2026-08-04)

Block it:
```
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /
```

Observed on this property (logged since 2026-08-04):
- Not observed here yet.

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