Yahoo Link Preview bot fetches metadata and preview data from URLs shared on Yahoo platforms and services. Supports Yahoo's social features, news aggregation, and content discovery across their ecosystem of web properties.

At a glance

Operator: Yahoo
Type: Preview

How Centinel checks it

User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.

Yahoo Link Preview publishes nothing Centinel can check a source against, so a match reports the name and leaves the source unconfirmed. The match tokens, verification domains, and address feeds are not published here.

Allowing or blocking it

The crawler object in the /validate response sets access_allowed to true only for a verified source that your tenant allowlists. A policy rule can allow or block this crawler by its category, Preview.

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