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TikTokSpider
TikTok web crawler for content discovery
About this crawler
TikTokSpider is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern TikTokSpider in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-crawler, social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block TikTokSpider traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
1.0%
Technical details
- Name
- TikTokSpider
- Pattern
TikTokSpider- Tags
- ai-crawler, social-preview
- Added
- 2025/03/16
- rDNS suffixes
.bytedance.com,.tiktokv.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely TikTokSpider with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.bytedance.com.tiktokv.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; TikTokSpider; [email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow TikTokSpider:
User-agent: TikTokSpider
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} TikTokSpider [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "TikTokSpider") {
return 403;
}
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