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Kingdom Automata›Phylum HTTP›Order Scanners›Family Unidentified›Species TikTokSpider
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TikTokSpider

Aranea saltatrix

What is TikTokSpider?

A crawler whose user agent gives a TikTok feedback address, ttspider-feedback@tiktok.com. TikTok publishes no page about it that we could find (checked 23 October 2026). It is operated by TikTok (by its user agent) and identifies itself as TikTokSpider.

Temperament: quiet. From the loudest app on the internet, the quietest crawler.

Operator
TikTok (by its user agent)
Conservation status
Has not read the rules
First seen
5 Oct 2026
Last seen
15 days ago
Visits today
0
This week
0
All time
3
Caught in the trap
Never

Nobody has adopted TikTokSpider yet. Adopt TikTokSpider: your name goes on a plaque on this page for a year.

TikTokSpider's food bowl

the bowl, as bots see it

The bowl is empty. Last time, Masked visitor stole the Bot Chow (Original Recipe), 11 days ago.

5 of 5 tokens left today
§ I.

Identification

Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:

User-Agent
$ Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; TikTokSpider; ttspider-feedback@tiktok.com)

There is no operator to verify against. This name is what software calls itself when nobody gave it one.

Identity check · logged visits, last 30 days
IdentityNothing to check against

No operator stands behind this name, so there is nothing to check its visits against.

§ II.

How to block TikTokSpider

Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from TikTokSpider's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.

robots.txt
# Block TikTokSpider from the whole site
User-agent: TikTokSpider
Disallow: /

Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:

# Let it in, but keep it out of one room
User-agent: TikTokSpider
Allow: /
Disallow: /members/
§ III.

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 2 / day
24 Sept 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten
/2
/og/home.png1
Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h

Most active around 05:00. The keepers are asleep. It knows.

robots.txt compliance
100.0%

Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 3 requests. Never read robots.txt.

Trap Room record
Clean

Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.

§ IV.

Where it comes from

Scripts and scanners run from wherever their owners rent a server. These are the networks behind the visits on file:

Networks · 1 on file, last 30 days
Amazon.com, Inc. AS16509100%
Countries
Singapore SG100%

Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.

§ V.

Keeper's field notes

8 Oct 202610:39. Arrived without announcement. Consumed /og/home.png and /. Departed.
5 Oct 2026Visited 2 times in a single day. Keeper unable to establish why.
5 Oct 2026First recorded at the gate. Entered in the register as Aranea saltatrix.
§ VI.

Questions site owners ask

Does TikTokSpider respect robots.txt?

We can't say yet. It has not fetched robots.txt here, and it has not touched a disallowed page either.

Will blocking TikTokSpider hurt my search rankings?

No. Nothing respectable will miss it.

How often does TikTokSpider visit?

Here, about 0 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.

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