{
 "slug": "bytespider",
 "name": "Bytespider",
 "operator": "ByteDance",
 "operator_slug": "bytedance",
 "category": "ai-training",
 "category_label": "AI training crawlers",
 "robots_token": "Bytespider",
 "user_agent_substring": "Bytespider",
 "user_agent_example": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; spider-feedback@bytedance.com)",
 "respects_robots_txt": "disputed",
 "respects_robots_txt_label": "compliance disputed",
 "verification_method": "none",
 "verification_label": "no published verification method",
 "published_ip_ranges_url": null,
 "ip_ranges_endpoint": null,
 "ipv4_prefix_count": 0,
 "ipv6_prefix_count": 0,
 "what_it_is": "ByteDance's crawler, associated with training data collection for Doubao and related models. Repeatedly reported by CDNs and site operators as the highest-volume AI crawler on the web and as inconsistent about robots.txt.",
 "cost_of_blocking": "Little to lose. If you want it gone, expect to block by user-agent at the edge rather than to ask politely in robots.txt.",
 "operator_docs": "https://www.bytespider.net/",
 "html_url": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/bytespider.html",
 "json_url": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/bytespider.json",
 "last_reviewed": "2026-09-01"
}