Yahoo Slurp
recommended: allowYahoo! Slurp was the search engine crawler for Yahoo's search engine.
What it does
Yahoo! Slurp follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl directives more reliably than most other bots.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Yahoo! Slurp
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Yahoo Slurp:
Allow full access
User-agent: Yahoo! Slurp
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Yahoo! Slurp
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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