Yeti
Naver Yeti search engine web crawler bot
About this crawler
Yeti is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Yeti in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Yeti traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.85%
Technical details
- Name
- Yeti
- Pattern
Yeti- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://naver.me/bot
- Added
- 2012/05/07
- rDNS suffixes
.naver.com,.naver.jp- Instances
- 5 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Yeti with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.naver.com.naver.jp
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +http://naver.me/bot)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +http://naver.me/spd)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +https://naver.me/spd)
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Yeti/1.1; +https://naver.me/spd) Chrome/101.0.4951.0 Safari/537.36
Yeti/1.0 (NHN Corp.; http://help.naver.com/robots/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Yeti:
User-agent: Yeti
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Yeti [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Yeti") {
return 403;
}
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