Dola-SearchBot
recommended: observeDola-SearchBot is a web crawler operated by ByteDance that appears to collect web content for search features in its Dola AI assistant.
What it does
Dola-SearchBot revisits your site on a flexible schedule, often requesting several pages in a burst. Activity usually increases when your content changes or its index refreshes, with quiet intervals between crawl passes.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Dola-SearchBot
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Dola-SearchBot:
Allow full access
User-agent: Dola-SearchBot
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Dola-SearchBot
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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