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Doubaobot

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Operated by ByteDance ai scraper

Doubaobot is a web crawler operated by ByteDance that downloads website content to support Doubao training and generated answers.

What it does

Doubaobot crawls websites to build AI training datasets, and its operator decides which sites, how often, and how deep it goes. Expect broad sweeps that fetch far more pages per visit than a search crawler would, on an unpredictable schedule. Volume can run heavy while a collection pass is underway, then stop entirely.

How to identify it

User-agent contains any of:

  • Doubaobot

robots.txt

Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Doubaobot:

Allow full access

User-agent: Doubaobot
Allow: /

Block entirely

User-agent: Doubaobot
Disallow: /

Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless — see how →

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