imageSpider is a web crawler operated by ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, Douyin, and other content platforms. The bot collects images from websites across the internet, likely to support ByteDance's various AI products.

At a glance

Operator: ByteDance
Type: AI Training
RSL category: ai-train

How Centinel checks it

User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.

imageSpider publishes nothing Centinel can check a source against, so a match reports the name and leaves the source unconfirmed. The match tokens, verification domains, and address feeds are not published here.

Allowing or blocking it

The crawler object in the /validate response sets access_allowed to true only for a verified source that your tenant allowlists. A policy rule can allow or block this crawler by its category, AI Training.

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