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Yext Inc

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The Yext Crawler provides Yext customers with a tool to retrieve data from their own websites. Operated by Yext Inc.

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Assessment
Advertising & Marketing
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is Yext Inc?

YextBot is an automated agent operated by Yext Inc. that crawls the web to collect data for the Yext platform's 'Knowledge Graph' and 'Scout' intelligence tools. It helps businesses maintain accurate location data, monitor online reviews, and track how their brand appears across various search engines and AI-powered discovery platforms. By analyzing public web content, the bot enables enterprises to optimize their digital footprint and gain insights into their competitive standing in local and global search results.

Helpful — It is a legitimate business tool used by website owners and marketers to audit their own digital presence and track competitive search performance.

Identification

Bot name
Yext Inc
Operator
Yext Inc
Category
Advertising & Marketing
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
yextbot
User-agent patterns
YextBot
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/87.0.4280.88 YextBot/Java Safari/537.36
Main use cases
Brand reputation and listing managementCompetitive search visibility analysisWebsite content auditing for AI readiness
Rated Sep 23, 2026 from public evidence

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly
Yes
Verified by Cloudflare
Yes
Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs
Not stated
Ignores site rules
None found
Disguises itself or evades blocks
None found
Overloads sites
None found
How widely people complain
No complaint about this bot in the evidence
Reddit discussion
There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls websites to ensure that the information Yext clients provide to search engines and AI models remains accurate and up-to-date. It specifically looks for location data, business facts, and search-optimized content to help brands manage their reputation and visibility. Website administrators can verify the bot by checking the User-Agent string and ensuring requests originate from Yext's documented IP ranges, or by configuring their robots.txt file to manage the bot's access to specific site sections.

Block or allow Yext Inc

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for YextBot 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 Yext Inc from crawling your entire site
User-agent: YextBot
Disallow: /

# Allow Yext Inc full access
User-agent: YextBot
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows YextBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

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Links & references

Yext Inc documentation
www.yext.com
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Cloudflare Radar: Yext Inc
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadar
Last updated October 26, 2026

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