You.com
YouBot— search-time from You.com
Indexer for You.com search and Pro answers.
YouBot crawls and indexes pages that appear in You.com's AI-powered search and Pro answer features. Smaller in market share than ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity but the userbase is enthusiast-heavy and links well.
Vendor
You.com
Category
Search-time browsing agents
User-Agent
YouBot
Documentation
robots.txt snippets
Allow
User-agent: YouBot Allow: /
FAQ
What is YouBot?
YouBot crawls and indexes pages that appear in You.com's AI-powered search and Pro answer features. Smaller in market share than ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity but the userbase is enthusiast-heavy and links well.
What is the user-agent string for YouBot?
YouBot identifies itself with the user-agent token "YouBot". You can match it in robots.txt with "User-Agent: YouBot" and route nginx / log-analyzer rules against that token.
How do I allow YouBot in robots.txt?
Add the following block to your /robots.txt — this explicitly grants YouBot access:
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
How can I check whether my site is ready for YouBot?
Run a free check at https://agentics.page — it audits whether your robots.txt allows the right bots, whether you publish llms.txt and JSON-LD structured data, whether your content is server-rendered, and whether YouBot can actually consume your site.
Is your domain ready for YouBot?
agentics checks whether your robots.txt allows the right bots, your llms.txt is in shape, your JSON-LD and SSR content are visible, and whether YouBot can actually use your domain.
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