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title: "What is Doubaobot? ByteDance's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "Doubaobot is an AI-related crawler operated by ByteDance. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
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# Doubaobot

by ByteDance

AI training AI UA only (unverifiable)

Collects pages in bulk to train a model, unconnected to any individual user's question.

Doubaobot is an AI-related crawler operated by ByteDance.

## What it usually means

ByteDance crawled this page as part of its AI crawling.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`doubaobot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: Doubaobot`

Free tools

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

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

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TikTokSpider

ByteDance crawler associated with TikTok search and discovery.

](/bot-directory/tiktokspider)[

Bytespider

ByteDance crawler collecting public content used to train its AI models.

](/bot-directory/bytespider)

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AliyunBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Alibaba.

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Applebot-Extended

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Robots token controlling whether Apple may use crawled content for Apple Intelligence training.

](/bot-directory/applebot-extended)[

ChatGLM-Spider

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## See if Doubaobot has visited your site

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