Yahoo-MMCrawler

search-engine Yahoo-MMCrawler

Yahoo multimedia crawler

About this crawler

Yahoo-MMCrawler is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Yahoo-MMCrawler in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Yahoo-MMCrawler traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Yahoo-MMCrawler
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
Yahoo-MMCrawler
Pattern
Yahoo-MMCrawler
Tags
search-engine
Reference
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN22600.html
Added
2026/05/09
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (Yahoo-MMCrawler/4.0; mailto:[email protected])

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Yahoo-MMCrawler:

User-agent: Yahoo-MMCrawler Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Yahoo-MMCrawler [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Yahoo-MMCrawler") { return 403; }
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