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Toutiao

Name: Toutiao
Author: Bytedance

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Toutiao is ByteDance's automated news aggregation bot collecting content across web platforms. Operated by Bytedance.

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Assessment

Search Engine Crawler

What is Toutiao?

Toutiao is a web crawler operated by Bytedance. Toutiao is ByteDance's automated news aggregation bot collecting content across web platforms. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Toutiao

Operator

Bytedance

Why it crawls your site

Toutiao crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Bytedance as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Toutiao

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for zhanzhang.toutiao.com in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Toutiao from crawling your entire site
User-agent: zhanzhang.toutiao.com
Disallow: /

# Allow Toutiao full access
User-agent: zhanzhang.toutiao.com
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows zhanzhang.toutiao.com. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Bytedance's documentation.