Search engine crawlers

What is Yeti?

Yeti is the crawler Naver uses for Naver search. Naver documents a reverse DNS check so you can confirm a request is really Yeti.

Last verified 2026-09-30 against the operator's documentation. All bots

Yeti at a glance

Operator: Naver
Type: Search engine crawlers
Purpose: Crawls pages for Naver search in South Korea.
robots.txt token: Yeti
Example user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yeti/1.1; +https://naver.me/spd)
How to verify: Run a reverse DNS lookup and check that the name ends in naver.com, then confirm with a forward lookup.
Reverse DNS: naver.com
Operator documentation: https://searchadvisor.naver.com/guide/seo-basic-firewall

How often is Yeti impersonated?

For the median organisation, under 1% of requests claiming to be Yeti failed verification.

Measured between 3 July 2026 and 28 September 2026 across organisations protected by Centinel. We only publish a share when at least five organisations each saw enough of these requests. Pooled across all of their requests, the share was under 1%: a few large organisations carry most of the traffic, so the median organisation is the better guide to what yours will see.

This directory measures requests between 3 July 2026 and 28 September 2026. The fake crawler report covers its own, earlier window (late June to 21 September 2026), so its figures differ from the ones here. Read it for the method.

Have a request that claims to be Yeti? Check its IP address.

Should you block Yeti?

Allow it if: you have Korean-speaking visitors.
Block it if: you have no audience in South Korea and the crawl adds load.
What blocking changes: Your pages drop out of Naver search.

To block it, add this group to your robots.txt. Naver documents robots.txt control for Yeti.

User-agent: Yeti
Disallow: /

robots.txt only asks. It does nothing against a client that ignores it or only pretends to be Yeti. Stopping those takes verification at your edge.