Yahoo Slurp
GoodBotVerifiedBOTYahoo! Slurp was the search engine crawler for Yahoo's search engine. Operated by Yahoo.
What is Yahoo Slurp?
Yahoo Slurp is the dedicated web-indexing robot operated by Yahoo. It systematically traverses the internet to collect and process web page data, which is then integrated into the Yahoo Search index to ensure content is discoverable by users. The bot is designed to operate with consideration for server load and adheres to standard webmaster protocols, including robots.txt directives.
Identification
Yahoo! SlurpHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
Why it crawls your site
Slurp crawls the web to maintain an up-to-date index of the internet, allowing Yahoo to provide relevant search results to its users. By visiting websites, it identifies new content, updates existing information, and tracks changes to page structures. Webmasters can verify the bot's authenticity by checking that the user-agent string contains 'Yahoo! Slurp' and by reviewing the official Yahoo help documentation, which provides contact channels for crawl-related support.
Block or allow Yahoo Slurp
Add a Disallow rule for Yahoo! Slurp 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 Yahoo Slurp from crawling your entire site User-agent: Yahoo! Slurp Disallow: / # Allow Yahoo Slurp full access User-agent: Yahoo! Slurp Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Yahoo! Slurp. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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From the community
Recent Reddit discussion mentioning this bot.
Related bots
Other crawlers operated by Yahoo.
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