Timpibot
Timpi web crawler for content discovery
About this crawler
Timpibot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Timpibot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Timpibot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
2.8%
Technical details
- Name
- Timpibot
- Pattern
Timpibot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://timpi.io
- Added
- 2026/04/07
- rDNS suffixes
.timpi.io- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Timpibot 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.
.timpi.io
Sample User-Agent strings
Timpibot/0.9 (+http://www.timpi.io)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Timpibot/0.8; +http://www.timpi.io)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Timpibot/0.9; +http://www.timpi.io)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Timpibot:
User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Timpibot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Timpibot") {
return 403;
}
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