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title: "What is YiyanBot? Baidu's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "YiyanBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Baidu. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
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# YiyanBot

by Baidu

AI training AI UA only (unverifiable)

Collects pages in bulk to train a model, unconnected to any individual user's question.

YiyanBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Baidu.

## What it usually means

Baidu crawled this page as part of its AI crawling.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`yiyanbot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: YiyanBot`

Free tools

[Verify a YiyanBot request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=yiyanbot) [Check if your site allows YiyanBot](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

[Baidu's page for YiyanBot](https://www.baidu.com/search/robots_english.html)

## Sources

-   [Baidu crawler docs](https://www.baidu.com/search/robots_english.html)

## More from Baidu

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Baiduspider

Baidu's crawler for its search index.

](/bot-directory/baiduspider)[

ERNIEBot

Baidu crawler collecting public content for its ERNIE models.

](/bot-directory/erniebot)

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Applebot-Extended

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## See if YiyanBot has visited your site

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