Crawler directory

ByteDance

Bytespider

About this crawler

ByteDance’s public-web crawler for product and model data.

Usually means: This operator is collecting the page as public web content that may improve future models.

User agent

Bytespider

Trfyx matches these as user-agent tokens, not full browser strings. Providers may add surrounding version or product text.

How Trfyx matches

Matched from the user-agent token

Trfyx reads the request on the server, because these crawlers ask for HTML without running your analytics script.

User agent

Request user-agent contains Bytespider.

Server fetch

Recorded in middleware, not the browser script.

robots.txt

The published name to allow or disallow.

Sample robots.txt

robots.txt
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

See when Bytespider
hits your site

Trfyx records Bytespider on the server and keeps it out of your human visitor counts.

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