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# You.com: crawler operator profile | Agent Ready Crawlers

> You.com: crawler operator profile covering YouBot. Sourced facts, a standards table, dated prices and what it does not do, read 2026-11-05.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/you-com
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-05

Crawler operator

# You.com

In short

You.com recommends checking YouBot by signature before reverse DNS or address range, and keeps its Ed25519 key at you.com rather than on a separate host. The bot slows on HTTP 429 and pauses on 503; the 68.67.112.0/24 range is given only in prose, so it cannot be loaded from a file.

Type

[Crawler operator](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/by-type/crawler-operator/)

Homepage

[you.com](https://you.com)

In one line

You.com runs YouBot for its search index and offers three checks: Web Bot Auth signatures with keys at you.com, reverse DNS under search.you.com, and the range 68.67.112.0/24.

Last read

2026-11-05

## What You.com does for this layer

### From the vendor's own pages

You.com says YouBot is the crawler that powers the You.com search engine by discovering and indexing web pages. ([you.com](https://you.com/docs/youbot.md)) YouBot's user agent carries YouBot/1.0, a link to docs.you.com/youbot and an env:prod environment marker inside a Chrome-style string. ([you.com](https://you.com/docs/youbot.md)) You.com says YouBot signs requests with Web Bot Auth and publishes Ed25519 public keys in JWK format at you.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory. ([you.com](https://you.com/docs/youbot.md)) You.com names cryptographic signatures as the recommended check, ahead of reverse DNS and IP range validation. ([you.com](https://you.com/docs/youbot.md))

You.com says genuine YouBot requests originate from 68.67.112.0/24. ([you.com](https://you.com/docs/youbot.md)) You.com says YouBot honours robots.txt including crawl-delay and caches robots.txt for 30 minutes. ([you.com](https://you.com/docs/youbot.md)) You.com says YouBot reduces its crawl rate on HTTP 429 and pauses crawling on HTTP 503. ([you.com](https://you.com/docs/youbot.md))

### What our crawl saw

you.com served a key directory with one Ed25519 key and the content type application/http-message-signatures-directory+json on 2026-11-05. ([you.com](https://you.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory))

## Products and plans

| Product | What it does | Price model | From | As of |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| YouBot | Crawler for the You.com search index, signed with Web Bot Auth. | No price recorded |

## Standards

| Standard | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| RFC 9309 (robots.txt) | Supports | YouBot fully respects robots.txt, including user-agent rules and crawl-delay. (you.com) |
| Web Bot Auth | Supports | Requests signed; keys at you.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory. (you.com) |
| Published IP list | Partial | One /24 given in the docs, not a machine-readable range file. (you.com) |
| Reverse DNS check | Supports | youbot-{octets-with-hyphens}.search.you.com. (you.com) |

## Our checks

| Check | Result | Method | Date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Homepage fetch | HTTP 200 | GET with the crawl user agent after a robots.txt check | 2026-11-05 |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | 200, application/http-message-signatures-directory+json, 1 key | GET /.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory with the crawl user agent | 2026-11-05 |

## What You.com does not do

-   You.com publishes its YouBot range in prose on the docs page, not as a machine-readable IP file.
-   You.com's crawler page covers YouBot only and documents no separate fetcher for user-triggered requests (read 2026-11-05).

## Reading notes

The [YouBot row](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/youbot/) in the Crawler Index, read on 4 November 2026, said You.com published no documentation. The page cited here, you.com/docs/youbot, exists and documents the bot.

## Related pages on this site

-   [All crawler operators](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/by-type/crawler-operator/) 31 profiles
-   [The full vendor list](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/) 73 profiles in four types
-   [YouBot](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/youbot/) token YouBot

## Sources

-   [you.com](https://you.com) read 2026-11-05
-   [YouBot: You.com's Web Crawler](https://you.com/docs/youbot.md) read 2026-11-05
-   [you.com Web Bot Auth key directory path (GET probe)](https://you.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory) read 2026-11-05

Last reviewed 2026-11-05