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imageSpider

AI Training Crawler Unknown / community maintained robots.txt behaviour unknown

ByteDance's image collection crawler

User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; imageSpider; +https://www.bytedance.com/)

Allow imageSpider in robots.txt

User-agent: imageSpider
Allow: /

Block imageSpider in robots.txt

User-agent: imageSpider
Disallow: /

Blocking stops your content being used for model training. It does not remove you from AI search results — that's governed by separate search/assistant bots.

Official documentation: https://knownagents.com/agents/imagespider

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