training crawlers
Bytespider
Operated by ByteDance · Training crawlers
ByteDance's crawler, widely reported to collect public content for model training.
When Bytespider shows up in your logs
ByteDance is likely collecting content for training. It's user-agent only, so treat a sighting as a signal, not proof.
Crawlers that collect public content that may be used to train or ground models.
Allow or block it in robots.txt
A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.
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