YaK
GoodBotBotwhois.orgYaK is a web crawler operated by Meltwater (formerly Linkfluence) used to collect data for consumer intelligence, brand monitoring, and market trend analysis.
Identification
How we rated this bot
Identifies itself honestly, and we found no credible reports of abuse.
What we read
- How to deal with AI crawlers that ignore robots.txt | Soups Ranjan posted on the topic | LinkedIn
- Where did Perplexity say they would obey robots.txt? They explicitly document th... | Hacker News
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- google ignoring robots.txt ? - Google Search Central Community
- 20 Common Robots.txt Issues (and How to Avoid Them)
Block or allow YaK
Add a Disallow rule for Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YaK/1.0; http://linkfluence.com/; [email protected]) in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block YaK from crawling your entire site User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YaK/1.0; http://linkfluence.com/; [email protected]) Disallow: / # Allow YaK full access User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YaK/1.0; http://linkfluence.com/; [email protected]) Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YaK/1.0; http://linkfluence.com/; [email protected]). Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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