imageSpider
ByteDance's image collection crawler
About this crawler
imageSpider is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern imageSpider in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-crawler. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block imageSpider traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.33%
Technical details
- Name
- imageSpider
- Pattern
imageSpider- Tags
- ai-crawler
- Reference
- https://knownagents.com/agents/imagespider
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; imageSpider; +https://www.bytedance.com/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow imageSpider:
User-agent: imageSpider
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} imageSpider [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "imageSpider") {
return 403;
}
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