YextBot
Yext web crawler for site crawling
About this crawler
YextBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern YextBot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block YextBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- YextBot
- Pattern
YextBot\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://hitchhikers.yext.com/guides/create-crawler-connector/
- Added
- 2025/08/08
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/87.0.4280.88 YextBot/Java Safari/537.36
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow YextBot:
User-agent: YextBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} YextBot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "YextBot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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