Toutiao
recommended: allow
Operated by Bytedance
search engine
Toutiao is ByteDance's automated news aggregation bot collecting content across web platforms.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
zhanzhang.toutiao.com
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Toutiao:
Allow full access
User-agent: zhanzhang.toutiao.com
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: zhanzhang.toutiao.com
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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