You.com · Indexing

YouBot

Identify YouBot by its user agent. Check request identity, review robots.txt controls and track visits in Aiola Analytics.

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Key facts

User-agent token: YouBot
Indexing: Crawled for AI or search indexing.
You.com publishes official IP ranges; verify requests against them.

What YouBot is

YouBot indexes public pages for You.com's search engine and cited AI answers. Aiola classifies it as indexing because it supports a searchable retrieval index. You.com documents hostnames of the form youbot-{octets-with-hyphens}.search.you.com and requires a forward lookup confirming the original IP.

In Aiola's taxonomy, Indexing means crawled for ai or search indexing.

YouBot user agent

Look for the match token inside the complete HTTP User-Agent header. Tokens can be spoofed, so use the network checks below for authentication.

Full example User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; YouBot/1.0; +https://docs.you.com/youbot; env:prod) Chrome/X.X.X.X Safari/537.36
Case-insensitive match token
YouBot

Official IP ranges

You.com publishes an official IP range list. This cached snapshot contains 1 CIDR prefixes, last fetched 2026-10-27. Open the live source

Official IP range snapshot
68.67.112.0/24

Verify a YouBot request

For YouBot, compare the source IP from your trusted edge or server against You.com’s current published prefixes.

Test one CIDR in Python (replace REQUEST_IP)
python3 -c 'import ipaddress; print(ipaddress.ip_address("REQUEST_IP") in ipaddress.ip_network("68.67.112.0/24"))'

Test every current prefix in the vendor feed and re-fetch it regularly. This cached snapshot is evidence of publication, not a permanent firewall list.

Control YouBot with robots.txt

You.com documents crawler controls for this bot family. Robots.txt can direct cooperative crawling, but it cannot prove that a request is authentic.

Allow YouBot
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
Block YouBot
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

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Aiola Analytics

See every YouBot visit on your site

Aiola tracks 70 AI, search and link-preview crawlers next to your human traffic. See when YouBot arrives, which pages it requests and how that changes over time. Hosted Analytics needs Pro or a trial.

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