YouBot
You.com’s crawler. Indexes pages for the You.com AI search and assistant.
What YouBot is for
Indexes content for AI search - how users find you inside an answer.
Showing up here makes your site eligible as a source inside You.com answers.
Crawler guide
Evergreen identity, source, and robots.txt handling guidance.
Allow or block YouBot
Honours robots.txt. Add one of these to your robots.txt.
User-agent: YouBot Disallow: /
User-agent: YouBot Allow: /
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Common questions
What is YouBot?
YouBot is an AI web crawler operated by You.com. You.com’s crawler. Indexes pages for the You.com AI search and assistant.
How do I block YouBot?
Add a directive to your robots.txt: "User-agent: YouBot" followed by "Disallow: /". Honours robots.txt.
Does blocking YouBot hide me from AI?
Yes - YouBot is a search crawler, so blocking it removes your site as a citable source in that assistant's answers. Showing up here makes your site eligible as a source inside You.com answers.
Identity and robots.txt facts come from You.com's published bot documentation. This crawler carries no live telemetry of its own, so only the reference facts are shown.
Telemetry updated Feb 1, 2026.