AI search crawlers
Timpibot is a bot operated by Timpi that indexes pages so an AI answer engine can cite them. Makes data available for training AI models. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.
Request says
"Timpibot"
Checked against
Nothing published
Live check
No operator check exists for Timpibot. This still shows what the address really is.
Reference
| User agent | TimpibotToken only: match on the substring. |
|---|---|
| Operator | Timpi |
| Purpose | Scrapes data for use in training LLMs. |
| Respects robots.txt | No policy |
| Verification method | Claim onlyNone published, user agent only Timpi builds a decentralised index that is partly crawled by volunteer nodes, so requests can come from residential addresses. No published range list exists to check against. |
| Crawl pattern | Not published |
| Robots.txt tokens | Timpibot |
| Operator documentation | None published |
Makes data available for training AI models.
robots.txt
Paste one at the root of your domain. Rules are per token.
User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /User-agent: Timpibot
Allow: /User-agent: Timpibot
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /searchEdit the Disallow paths to match your own URLs.
Blocking Timpibot takes the site out of the index behind its answers, so it stops being cited there. If referral traffic from AI answers matters to you, block the training crawler instead and leave this one alone.
Build a file for every crawlerFAQ
Timpibot is a bot operated by Timpi that indexes pages so an AI answer engine can cite them. Makes data available for training AI models. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.
Not documented. No operator statement says whether Timpibot reads robots.txt, so add the rule but verify in your logs that the requests actually stop.
You cannot, at least not from the request itself. Timpi builds a decentralised index that is partly crawled by volunteer nodes, so requests can come from residential addresses. No published range list exists to check against. Compare the source IP against hosting and datacenter ranges instead, and rate limit anything that behaves like a crawler.
Add the Timpibot token to robots.txt with Disallow: /. If the crawler ignores robots.txt, match the user agent at your CDN or reverse proxy and return 403 there instead.
Blocking Timpibot takes the site out of the index behind its answers, so it stops being cited there. If referral traffic from AI answers matters to you, block the training crawler instead and leave this one alone.