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YisouSpider

Aranea shenmae

What is YisouSpider?

The crawler for Shenma, Alibaba's mobile search engine in China. It is operated by Shenma (Alibaba) and identifies itself as YisouSpider.

Temperament: voracious. Has a reputation for big appetites. Arrives with an old browser in its name, like a coat it never replaced.

Operator
Shenma (Alibaba)
Conservation status
Has not read the rules
First seen
Not yet
Last seen
Not yet
Visits today
0
This week
0
All time
0
Caught in the trap
Never
How to block YisouSpider ↓
§ I.

Identification

Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:

User-Agent
$ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.81 YisouSpider/5.0 Safari/537.36

Shenma (Alibaba) does not publish a way to verify YisouSpider's traffic. Treat its user agent as a claim, not proof: anyone can send it.

§ II.

How to block YisouSpider

Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from YisouSpider's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.

robots.txt
# Block YisouSpider from the whole site
User-agent: YisouSpider
Disallow: /

Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:

# Let it in, but keep it out of one room
User-agent: YisouSpider
Allow: /
Disallow: /members/
§ III.

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 1 / day
3 Sept 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten

Nothing on record in the last 30 days.

Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h
robots.txt compliance
100.0%

Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 0 requests. Never read robots.txt.

Trap Room record
Clean

Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.

§ IV.

Where it comes from

The networks YisouSpider's visits came from:

Nothing on record in the last 30 days.

Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.

§ V.

Questions site owners ask

Does YisouSpider respect robots.txt?

We can't say yet. It has not fetched robots.txt here, and it has not touched a disallowed page either.

Will blocking YisouSpider hurt my search rankings?

Yes, for Shenma (Alibaba)'s search engine. Blocked pages can drop out of its results. Other search engines are unaffected.

How often does YisouSpider visit?

Here, about 0 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.

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