TikTokSpider
ByteDance uses this crawler to collect content for AI model training. ByteDance crawler associated with AI model training.
What is TikTokSpider?
ByteDance crawler associated with AI model training. Training-data crawlers collect publicly available pages to build future AI models. Allowing one means your content can shape how models write and reason about your topics, and your site may be quoted from model memory. Blocking one keeps future training runs away, though anything already collected typically stays collected.
If you want AI engines to know your brand and quote your pages from memory, this is the crawler that gets you there.
Does TikTokSpider respect robots.txt?
Yes. TikTokSpider honors robots.txt directives, including wildcard rules and Allow lines. A Disallow rule for this crawler is respected — but remember robots.txt is a voluntary protocol across the whole industry, not a wall.
How to block TikTokSpider
Add this group to your robots.txt to deny TikTokSpider across your whole site:
User-agent: TikTokSpider Disallow: /
If you monetize content behind a paywall or care about control, allowing broad training crawlers means giving that material away with no attribution loop.
How to allow TikTokSpider
TikTokSpider is allowed by default on every site. It only gets blocked if a matching rule exists — most often a global User-agent: * group with Disallow: /. To exempt it while blocking other bots, put an empty Disallow group for it before the global block:
User-agent: TikTokSpider Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: /
Is TikTokSpider currently allowed on your site?
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