yacy
SafeUser-agent: yacy
Category: Data Scrapers
SEO impact if blocked: 2/10
YaCy Community
2 crawlers operated by YaCy Community
Who YaCy Community is, for site owners
YaCy Community operates 2 crawlers in our directory, filed under Data Scrapers. Of those 2, 2 rated safe for crawl behaviour.
Blocking YaCy Community carries an SEO impact score of 2/10 across its crawlers. Every crawler here carries the same blocking impact: Low - No SEO ranking impact.
Our recommendation for YaCy Community, set by its least reassuring crawler (yacy, rated safe): Generally safe to allow; provides legitimate crawling value.
YaCy Community at a glance
| Operator | YaCy Community |
|---|---|
| Crawlers in directory | 2 |
| Categories | Data Scrapers |
| SEO impact if blocked | 2/10 |
| Crawl behaviour | 2 rated safe |
Crawlers operated by YaCy Community
How to block or allow YaCy Community in robots.txt
These rules cover all 2 crawlers YaCy Community operates. Add them to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain.
Block YaCy Community completely
User-agent: yacy
User-agent: yacybot
Disallow: /
Allow YaCy Community explicitly
User-agent: yacy
User-agent: yacybot
Allow: /
robots.txt is a request, not an enforcement mechanism. A crawler that ignores it needs a block at the server or CDN layer. Rules are case-sensitive on the path and matched against the user-agent token, not the full user-agent string.
Frequently asked questions about YaCy Community
What crawlers does YaCy Community run?
YaCy Community operates 2 crawlers in our directory: yacy (user-agent yacy), yacybot (user-agent yacybot).
Should I block YaCy Community?
Generally safe to allow; provides legitimate crawling value. That guidance follows this operator's least reassuring crawler, yacy, rated safe, because allowing an operator allows every crawler it runs. The SEO impact score for blocking is 2/10, where 10 means blocking costs you the most visibility.
How do I block YaCy Community in robots.txt?
Add the following to robots.txt at your domain root: User-agent: yacy then User-agent: yacybot then Disallow: /. One Disallow line covers all 2 user-agent tokens.
Does blocking YaCy Community hurt my search rankings?
Every crawler here carries the same blocking impact: Low - No SEO ranking impact. Google's own ranking crawler is Googlebot, which this operator does not run, so blocking YaCy Community does not by itself remove you from Google's index. What it can change is whether AI assistants and analytics tools can read your pages.