Yahoo Link Preview
recommended: allow
Operated by Yahoo
social media
Yahoo Link Preview's bot fetches data from URLs shared on Yahoo platforms.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Yahoo Link Preview
Example user-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo Link Preview; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/yahoo-link-preview-SLN23615.html)robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Yahoo Link Preview:
Allow full access
User-agent: Yahoo Link Preview
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Yahoo Link Preview
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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References
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