YouBot Simulator & Tester
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Simulate a YouBot visit to any URL on your website. Crawl the page and inspect the HTML You.com gets for search and AI chat.
Simulate a YouBot visit
Enter any URL on your website to crawl it as YouBot and inspect the HTML it gets.
How to use the YouBot simulator
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Step 1
Enter a URL
Paste the full URL of any page on your website, such as a product page, a blog post, or the home page.
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Step 2
Select the YouBot user agent
The tester sends the request with the YouBot user-agent string, so your server answers the way it answers a real YouBot visit.
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Step 3
Run the crawl
The simulator requests the page as YouBot and follows redirects, the same way the crawler does.
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Step 4
Inspect the HTML
Check the status code, redirects, response headers, raw HTML, word count, and Open Graph tags YouBot gets. If your main content is missing from the HTML, YouBot cannot read it.
What is YouBot?
YouBot is the web crawler for You.com, an AI-powered search engine that emphasizes personalization and AI chat features. You.com offers traditional search results alongside AI-generated summaries and answers. Being accessible to YouBot ensures your content can be found and cited in You.com's various search modes.
Why allow YouBot?
YouBot robots.txt configuration
Control how YouBot crawls your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain, then run the simulator again on the same URL to confirm the change.
Allow YouBot
# Allow YouBot User-agent: YouBot Allow: /
Block YouBot
# Block YouBot User-agent: YouBot Disallow: /
User-Agent String: YouBot/1.0 (+https://you.com/bot)
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