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Bytespider

No operator documentation found. Known from observation only. Treat every claim about it as a report, not a fact.
Class
Training
robots.txt
Not stated
Evidence
Partly from third-party reports

Proving it is real

ByteDance publishes no way to confirm this identity, so any request using this name has to be taken on trust.

Blocking it

robots.txt
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
Cloudflare custom rule expression
(http.user_agent contains "Bytespider")
nginx
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Bytespider") {
    return 403;
}

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Last reviewed Nov 2, 2026