YandexCatalog
Yandex catalog crawler
About this crawler
YandexCatalog is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern YandexCatalog in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block YandexCatalog traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- YandexCatalog
- Pattern
YandexCatalog- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://yandex.com/bots
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexCatalog/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow YandexCatalog:
User-agent: YandexCatalog
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} YandexCatalog [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "YandexCatalog") {
return 403;
}
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