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title: "What is TikTokSpider? ByteDance's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "ByteDance crawler associated with TikTok search and discovery. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/tiktokspider
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# TikTokSpider

by ByteDance

Search engine UA only (unverifiable)

Crawls pages for a traditional search index, which is what lets them rank.

ByteDance crawler associated with TikTok search and discovery.

## What it usually means

ByteDance is crawling this page for TikTok's search and discovery surfaces.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`tiktokspider`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: TikTokSpider`

Free tools

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

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

## Sources

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

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](/bot-directory/bytespider)[

Doubaobot

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Baiduspider

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## See if TikTokSpider has visited your site

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