Naver Yeti — South Korea search crawler
Yeti is the web crawler operated by Naver, the search and content portal that holds a leading share of search in South Korea. Its robots.txt token is Yeti. Naver provides webmaster tooling and documentation, much of it in Korean, so some specifics are marked partially verified.
What this means
Yeti is the crawler for Naver, a portal that combines search with curated content and holds a leading position in South Korean search — a market where Google does not dominate the way it does in many regions. If your audience includes Korean-speaking users, Yeti crawling reflects Naver discovering and indexing your pages.
Naver runs Naver Search Advisor, its webmaster tooling, where site owners register sites and review crawl status. Much of the documentation is in Korean, which is why some specifics here are marked partially verified rather than asserted.
robots.txt considerations
Yeti is described as honouring robots.txt. To control it, target the Yeti token. Because the user agent is spoofable and detailed verification guidance is primarily in Korean, confirm current behaviour in Naver's official documentation where authenticity matters, and do not invent IP ranges.
- robots.txt token: Yeti
- Operated by Naver, a leading South Korean search portal
- Documentation primarily in Korean (Naver Search Advisor)
How it appears in analytics and logs
A request carrying the Yeti token is Naver's crawler fetching a URL — a bot event, not a human visit. Yeti matters most for audiences in South Korea, where Naver is a primary search destination; steady crawling is the healthy state for sites targeting that market.
Diagnostic use case
Recognise Yeti crawling when targeting Korean-language audiences, and apply robots.txt policy for Naver's crawler using its token.
What WebmasterID can help detect
WebmasterID classifies Yeti server-side as a search crawler and shows its activity separately from human traffic, so Naver crawl coverage is visible without parsing raw logs.
Common mistakes
- Ignoring Naver when targeting South Korean audiences because Google share is lower there.
- Assuming exact behaviour without checking Naver's documentation.
- Counting crawler hits as human visits.
Privacy and accuracy notes
Identification uses only the user agent — no human identity is involved. Country relevance here is a coarse market note, never an exact visitor location. WebmasterID records Yeti as a bot event, separate from human analytics.
Related pages
- Regional search engines overview
In several markets a regional search engine leads instead of Google: Yandex in Russian-language search, Baidu in China, Naver in South Korea, Seznam in the Czech Republic, and Coc Coc in Vietnam. Recognising their crawlers matters because being indexed by them is how you reach those audiences.
- YandexBot — Yandex's web crawler
YandexBot is the main crawler for Yandex, a search engine with a strong presence in Russian-language search. It uses the YandexBot robots.txt token and can be verified through reverse DNS, where the IP should resolve into a Yandex domain, confirmed by a matching forward lookup.
- Bot intelligence
See search-engine crawlers separated from human traffic.
Sources and verification notes
- Naver — Search Advisor (webmaster tooling)Naver's webmaster platform; Yeti documented primarily in Korean, so some specifics are partially verified.
Last reviewed 2026-06-24. Facts are checked against primary/official sources where available; uncertain specifics are marked “Data not yet verified” rather than guessed.