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title: "What is Bytespider? ByteDance's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "ByteDance crawler collecting public content used to train its AI models."
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# 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`

Free tools

[Verify a Bytespider request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=bytespider) [Check if your site allows Bytespider](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

[ByteDance's page for Bytespider](https://www.bytedance.com/)

## Sources

-   [ByteDance crawler docs](https://www.bytedance.com/)

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