# Timpibot

> A distributed crawler building an independent search index outside the Google/Bing duopoly.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Timpi |
| category | Search engines |
| robots.txt token | `Timpibot` |
| user-agent contains | `Timpibot` |
| robots.txt | obeys robots.txt (documented) |
| verify by | no published verification method |
| published IP ranges | none published |
| prefixes mirrored | 0 IPv4 / 0 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://timpi.io/ |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## What blocking it costs you

Absence from a small independent index.

## Full user-agent string

```
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Timpibot/0.1; +https://timpi.io)
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: Timpibot
Allow: /
```

JSON: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/timpibot.json · index: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/llms.txt