What is TikTokSpider?
TikTok and ByteDance publish no documentation for TikTokSpider, so what it fetches and why is not confirmed by its operator.
A bot that fits none of the groups above, such as an ad review crawler.
Everything circulating about TikTokSpider comes from third-party bot lists, not from TikTok.
Should you block TikTokSpider?
It depends on what it does; read the operator’s page below.
How to block TikTokSpider in robots.txt
ByteDance documents no robots.txt token for TikTokSpider that we could confirm, so we don’t suggest one here. Block it at your server or firewall by user agent instead.
How to verify a request is really TikTokSpider
Anyone can send any user agent, so the string alone proves nothing.
ByteDance publishes no IP ranges or DNS names for TikTokSpider that we could find, so there is no reliable way to tell a real TikTokSpider from a scraper using its user agent.
See when TikTokSpider reads your site
Bots don’t run JavaScript analytics, so a script tag never sees them. invisit records crawler reads on the server instead, through its server SDK or a Cloudflare Worker, and shows which bots read which pages, next to your visitors.
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