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YouBot

Operated by You.com. Identity is self-declared and unverified.

29Requests
3Distinct IPs
12Well-known probes
2026-08-28First seen
2026-10-05Last seen

Identity

Kindcrawler
Familyyou
Stated purposesearch
UA matchyoubot
Verifiedno
robots.txtcompliant

What it went looking for

The order and selection of discovery paths is a design fingerprint: it reflects which conventions whoever built this client decided to support.

PathHitsFirstLast
/robots.txt722026-08-282026-10-05
/.well-known/security.txt12026-09-142026-09-14

Protocol fingerprint

HTTPTLSCipherALPNRequests
HTTP/1.1TLS1.3TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256http/1.1188

TLS client fingerprint

Captured off the wire before the proxy terminates TLS. JA4 is stable across IP changes and much harder to spoof than a User-Agent string, so it is the strongest identity signal on this page.

JA4JA3TLSALPNSeen
t13d1713h1_ab0a1bf427ad_ecd0401ec68b06873b563b993c62...13http/1.1114

Requests per day (60 days)

DayRequests 
2026-08-282
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