How to Block Bytespider (ByteDance) in robots.txt
Exact robots.txt to block Bytespider — ByteDance's AI training crawler — from your site.
robots.txt Syntax — Block Bytespider
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User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: /
What This Does
Blocking Bytespider prevents your content from being used in AI training datasets. This does not remove existing knowledge — it only prevents future crawling. Content already in training datasets before you add this block is not retroactively removed.
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