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Yahoo Link Preview

Yahoo Link Preview's bot fetches data from URLs shared on Yahoo platforms.
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What is Yahoo Link Preview?

Yahoo Link Preview is Yahoo's link preview bot. Yahoo Link Preview's bot fetches data from URLs shared on Yahoo platforms.

Yahoo Link Preview controls how your links look when they are shared. Rich previews drive clicks across social and messaging platforms, and clean preview metadata also helps AI systems parse your pages. Allowing it keeps your content looking polished wherever it appears.

Like any automated client, Yahoo Link Preview consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

Want to see every AI bot hitting your site? Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic, so you can watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others crawl your pages and connect those visits to real citations and revenue. Learn more in AI crawler logs.

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How to handle Yahoo Link Preview

You will usually want Yahoo Link Preview allowed so shared links render rich previews. Block it only if you do not want preview cards generated for your pages.

To control Yahoo Link Preview, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: Yahoo Link Preview
Disallow: /

Yahoo does not publish a robots.txt commitment for Yahoo Link Preview, so confirm how it behaves by watching your access logs.

Examples

  • When a user shares a link, Yahoo Link Preview fetches the page's Open Graph tags to build a rich preview card.
  • A team adds Open Graph and image metadata so Yahoo Link Preview renders an attractive preview for shared URLs.

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Yahoo Link Preview is operated by Yahoo. It functions as Yahoo's link preview bot.

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