Agent directory · AI assistant
DoubaoBot
Fetches pages for Doubao, ByteDance's AI assistant.
- Run by
- ByteDance
- Type
- AI assistant
- Robots.txt name
DoubaoBot- Verifiable
- Not yet
What DoubaoBot does
Fetches pages for Doubao, ByteDance's AI assistant.
As an AI assistant, it fetches pages for a person, in real time, while they use an AI assistant. The kinds of AI agent that visit websites.
Should you allow it?
Almost always allow it. Blocking it means the assistant can't read your pages when a customer asks about you, so it answers from somewhere else. A decision guide for blocking or allowing AI crawlers.
How to allow or block DoubaoBot
DoubaoBot reads the DoubaoBot group in your robots.txt. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: DoubaoBot
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere, even if another rule blocks other bots:
User-agent: DoubaoBot
Allow: /Robots.txt is a request, not a lock: well-behaved crawlers follow it, impostors don't. Robots.txt for AI agents.
How to tell if it's really DoubaoBot
Our registry doesn't verify DoubaoBot against published IP ranges yet, so treat a request that uses the name as a claim, not proof: anyone can send its user agent. Check ByteDance's documentation for how to verify it.
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