Timpibot
AI training crawlerThe crawler of Timpi, a decentralized search index. Timpi's data site says it sells index data to AI and LLM teams. No operator documentation of the user-agent string or robots.txt behavior was found.
| Operator | Timpi |
| Type | AI training crawler |
| Respects robots.txt | Not documented |
| Documentation | Official operator documentation |
No user-agent of its own
Timpibot is a robots.txt control token, not a separate crawler: you will never see it in your server logs. It changes how content fetched by Timpi's regular crawlers may be used.
How to block Timpibot in robots.txt
Add this to the robots.txt file at the root of your site:
Block Timpibot
User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /Explicitly allow Timpibot
User-agent: Timpibot
Allow: /What blocking changes: Your content stays out of the Timpi index and datasets built from it.
Want to decide for all AI bots at once? Use the AI robots.txt generator.
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