`YandexFavicons`

Yandex says YandexFavicons downloads the site's favicon file to display in search results. The robot list says it does not take the general rules in robots.txt into account. The robot list says an agreement between Yandex and the site owner can override some robots.txt restrictions. This check does not apply that agreement.

robots.txt token: YandexFavicons
Operator: Yandex
Kind: search
robots.txt: ignores_star. The vendor says this robot does not take the general User-agent: * rules in robots.txt into account.
HTTP user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexFavicons/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots) The table publishes this string.
IP list: None on the cited page. This page says the IP list is not disclosed.
Source: How to check that a robot belongs to Yandex. Retrieved 2026-10-18.

JSON

curl -s https://whosthatbot.com/v1/crawlers/yandexfavicons

Check this token

tools/call with name check_robots is the same check at POST /mcp. The pasted file disallows YandexFavicons on /docs and allows *. The call does not fetch a host.

curl -s https://whosthatbot.com/mcp -H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"check_robots","arguments":{"robots_txt":"User-agent: YandexFavicons\nDisallow: /\n\nUser-agent: *\nAllow: /\n","path":"/docs","ids":["yandexfavicons"]}}}'

That call returns fetched_target false. This row is disallow via group YandexFavicons, rule Disallow: /.