Bytespider
by ByteDance
AI training
AI
UA only (unverifiable)
Collects pages in bulk to train a model, unconnected to any individual user's question.
ByteDance crawler collecting public content used to train its AI models.
What it usually means
ByteDance crawled this page as potential training data. It has a reputation for aggressive crawling and inconsistent robots.txt compliance.
How to identify it
User-Agent tokens
bytespider robots.txt stanza
User-agent: Bytespider Sources
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