`YandexSitelinks`

Yandex says YandexSitelinks checks the availability of pages used as sitelinks and takes 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: YandexSitelinks
Operator: Yandex
Kind: search
robots.txt: obeys. The vendor says this crawler obeys robots.txt on automatic crawls.
HTTP user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexSitelinks; Dyatel; +http://yandex.com/bots) The table publishes this string. It has no version number. Dyatel is inside this string, and this card does not split it into a second token.
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/yandexsitelinks

Check this token

tools/call with name check_robots is the same check at POST /mcp. The pasted file disallows YandexSitelinks 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: YandexSitelinks\nDisallow: /\n\nUser-agent: *\nAllow: /\n","path":"/docs","ids":["yandexsitelinks"]}}}'

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