Species index / bytedance
Bytespider
Operated by ByteDance. Identity is self-declared and unverified.
24Requests
2Distinct IPs
18Well-known probes
2026-08-19First seen
2026-10-01Last seen
Identity
| Kind | crawler |
|---|---|
| Family | bytedance |
| Stated purpose | training |
| UA match | bytespider |
| Verified | no |
| robots.txt | ignores |
Widely reported to ignore robots.txt. The census measures this rather than assuming it.
What it went looking for
The order and selection of discovery paths is a design fingerprint: it reflects which conventions whoever built this client decided to support.
| Path | Hits | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
/robots.txt | 22 | 2026-08-23 | 2026-10-01 |
Protocol fingerprint
| HTTP | TLS | Cipher | ALPN | Requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP/2.0 | TLS1.3 | TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 | h2 | 23 |
| HTTP/1.1 | TLS1.2 | ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 | -- | 4 |
| HTTP/1.1 | TLS1.3 | TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 | http/1.1 | 1 |
TLS client fingerprint
Captured off the wire before the proxy terminates TLS. JA4 is stable across IP changes and much harder to spoof than a User-Agent string, so it is the strongest identity signal on this page.
| JA4 | JA3 | TLS | ALPN | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| t13d1313h2_f57a46bbacb6_9249cab70c77 | d3516fb149c297df... | 13 | h2,http/1.1 | 18 |
| t12d610700_8a10cb45a794_4446390ac224 | 683145f4a4104e2e... | 12 | -- | 4 |
| t13d1516h2_8daaf6152771_d8a2da3f94cd | 21268e424ae3ca8b... | 13 | h2,http/1.1 | 1 |
| t13d1516h2_8daaf6152771_d8a2da3f94cd | 8c137ad3980edc08... | 13 | h2,http/1.1 | 1 |
| t13d1516h2_8daaf6152771_d8a2da3f94cd | b82d63dcb32fdc95... | 13 | h2,http/1.1 | 1 |
Requests per day (60 days)
| Day | Requests | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-19 | 1 | |
| 2026-08-23 | 1 | |
| 2026-08-24 | 2 | |
| 2026-08-28 | 2 | |
| 2026-08-29 | 1 | |
| 2026-08-30 | 1 | |
| 2026-08-31 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-02 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-03 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-07 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-11 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-13 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-14 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-15 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-17 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-20 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-21 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-23 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-26 | 3 | |
| 2026-10-01 | 1 |