Does TikTokSpider respect robots.txt?

Not documented. No operator statement says whether TikTokSpider reads robots.txt, so add the rule but verify in your logs that the requests actually stop.

How do I block TikTokSpider?

Add the TikTokSpider 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.

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TikTokSpider

Q: How do I verify a request really came from TikTokSpider?

You cannot, at least not from the request itself. No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof. Compare the source IP against hosting and datacenter ranges instead, and rate limit anything that behaves like a crawler.

TikTokSpider is a bot operated by ByteDance that collects pages used to train AI models. Downloads data to train LLMS, as per Bytespider. 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.

TikTokSpider at a glance

Reference data for the TikTokSpider crawler
User agent	`TikTokSpider` Token only. The operator has not published a full user-agent string, so match on the substring rather than an exact header.
Operator	ByteDance
Purpose	LLM training.
Respects robots.txt	Not documented
Verification method	None published, user agent only No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof.
Crawl pattern	Not published
Robots.txt tokens	`TikTokSpider`
Operator documentation	None published

Downloads data to train LLMS, as per Bytespider.

robots.txt

Allow or block TikTokSpider

Paste one of these into the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Rules are per token, so a block on one crawler leaves every other bot untouched.

Block TikTokSpider

User-agent: TikTokSpider
Disallow: /

Blocks every path for this crawler only.

Allow TikTokSpider

User-agent: TikTokSpider
Allow: /

Explicit allow. Useful when a wildcard rule above it would otherwise catch this crawler.

Allow, except the pages you never want quoted

User-agent: TikTokSpider
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /search

Edit the Disallow paths to match your own account, checkout and search URLs.

What blocking actually costs you

Blocking TikTokSpider keeps your pages out of the next training run. It does not remove anything already collected, and it has no effect on how the site ranks in ordinary search.

Block every crawler in the directory at once

Verification

Is that really TikTokSpider?

A user-agent header is a string the client chooses. Scrapers copy TikTokSpider precisely because site owners allow it. No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof.

Paste the IP address from your access log below. You will see whether it belongs to a hosting provider, a residential proxy pool or a Tor exit, plus the ASN that announces it, which is what tells you whether the claim holds up.

Datacenter IP detectionNearly every real AI crawler egresses from cloud ranges. A residential IP claiming to be one is the first thing to check.IP reputation checkSee whether the address behind a fake crawler hit has a history of abuse elsewhere.Residential proxy detectionScrapers that get blocked by user agent often come back through residential proxy pools.

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Identify crawlers automatically instead of by hand

Agentscan checks a request against published crawler ranges, reverse DNS and hosting data, then returns a verdict your edge can act on. One call per request, no range files to keep up to date.

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