Purpose: Training. Bulk crawling to build model training data.
ByteDance's crawler. Blocked at close to the same rate as the best-known AI crawlers, which is notable given how much less public discussion it attracts.
14.57%
of the panel names this token in robots.txt and disallows it, for the week of 2026-10-05.
How sites treat this token
| Stance | Domains | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| FullBlock | 131 | Every path is disallowed for this token. |
| PartialBlock | 14 | Some paths are disallowed for this token; others are not. |
| Allowed | 6 | The token is named and explicitly allowed. |
| Unmentioned | 844 | The file never names this token. This is not consent — the site may still close it off with a blanket rule for every crawler. |
Bytespider's three-year history
A site in the historical panel first named and disallowed this token in 2023-01; its most recent reading is 16.98%.