TinEye

seo TinEye

TinEye reverse image search web crawler

About this crawler

TinEye is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern TinEye in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block TinEye traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.33%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: TinEye
2026-05-012026-06-040.45%

Technical details

Name
TinEye
Pattern
TinEye
Tags
seo
Reference
http://www.tineye.com/crawler.html
Added
2017/10/14
Instances
2 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; TinEye-bot/1.31; +http://www.tineye.com/crawler.html)
TinEye/1.1 (http://tineye.com/crawler.html)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow TinEye:

User-agent: TinEye Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} TinEye [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "TinEye") { return 403; }
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