6 Web Crawlers Found My Site in 48 Hours. Here's What Each One Was Looking For.

I launched a set of developer tool APIs yesterday. No ads, no social media campaign, no Product Hunt launch. Just a VPS, a sitemap, and an IndexNow ping. Within 48 hours, six different web crawlers had found my site and were methodically working through my pages. None of them were Google — but one of them was OpenAI. Here's what showed up, in order — and what each one was actually doing. 1. YandexBot — The Fastest Indexer First appearance : Within 30 seconds of my IndexNow submission. YandexBot is Yandex's search engine crawler, and it is fast . Every time I submitted a new page via IndexNow, YandexBot crawled it within 30 seconds. Not minutes. Seconds. It crawled my tool pages, my OpenAPI specification files, my RSS feed, even my new API documentation page. YandexBot is the most thorough and responsive crawler I've observed. What it was looking for : Everything. It follows sitemaps, respects robots.txt, and indexes aggressively. If you support IndexNow, YandexBot is your most reliable