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title: "What is YouBot? You.com's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "You.com crawler for its search and AI answer index. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/youbot
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# YouBot

by You.com

Search engine UA only (unverifiable)

Crawls pages for a traditional search index, which is what lets them rank.

You.com crawler for its search and AI answer index.

## What it usually means

You.com is indexing this page so it can appear in its search and AI answers.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`youbot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: YouBot`

Free tools

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

[You.com's page for YouBot](https://about.you.com/youbot/)

## Sources

-   [You.com crawler docs](https://about.you.com/youbot/)

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Amazonbot

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Amzn-SearchBot

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Amazon crawler that makes content eligible for Amazon search experiences.

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Applebot

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Apple crawler for Siri and Spotlight Suggestions, spanning search and training use.

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Baiduspider

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Baidu's crawler for its search index.

](/bot-directory/baiduspider)

## See if YouBot has visited your site

Kitbase verifies and tracks bot and AI crawler traffic separately from human visitors, so you know exactly who's hitting your site.

[Start Free Trial](https://app.kitbase.dev/signup)