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lucy24

9:53 pm on Mar 9, 2025 (gmt 0)

New one on me, but it can't possibly be brand-new, can it?

robots.txt: no
IP: 47.128.various
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Mobile Safari/537.36;TikTokSpider;ttspider-feedback@tiktok.com
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; TikTokSpider; ttspider-feedback@tiktok.com)

47.128-131 is AWS Singapore (Isn't that where TikTok's founder comes from? Or am I getting my congressional hearings mixed up?) fwiw, ByteSpider comes from the same neighborhood.

Blocked due to header deficits.

I haven't seen it often enough to generalize safely. So far, some-but-not all visits have also requested the supporting files that a human would get with a 403, but never the favicon.

Bewenched

6:50 pm on Mar 14, 2025 (gmt 0)

We had a pretty nasty visit from them as well, but they actually totally overloaded our server today.

47.128.121.XX (Canada)3/14/2025 5:01:33 PM/images/products/thumbnails/KCH5205.jpg1.21 KB614206 - Partial Content GEThttps://www.xxxxx.com/xxx/xxx/xxx/page_1.htm Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; TikTokSpider; ttspider-feedback@tiktok.com)

Blocked fast.
never asked for robots.txt

ryoko

6:02 pm on Apr 7, 2025 (gmt 0)

I've had this one a lot today, from 47.128.121.xx
However, it appeared to grab robots.txt with the user-agent Go-http-client/2.0 for some reason.
Same time and IP address as TikTokSpider.

not2easy

6:31 pm on Apr 7, 2025 (gmt 0)

If you're using IPs for blocking, 47.128. is an Amazon server range:
47.128.0.0 - 47.131.255.255
47.128.0.0/14

lucy24

9:04 pm on Apr 7, 2025 (gmt 0)

to grab robots.txt with the user-agent Go-http-client/2.0 for some reason

I wish the next passing botrunner would explain the reason, because 99 times out of 100, giving a different UA just for robots.txt can only be called counterproductive. On my site, a handful of factors--one of them being bad_agent--nets you a generic

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /

where a truthful UA might have won permission to enter.

Brett_Tabke

12:52 pm on Oct 14, 2025 (gmt 0)

Still seeing this? Do you post to Tiktok with links? Or can you find links on tiktok?

Reason I ask is that I recently started getting some spiders id'ing as TikTok as well on searchengineworld world. I can only find a couple links on TTK to sew. (one was my link drop. lol)

I don't see anyone else talking about this anywhere.

lucy24

5:52 pm on Oct 14, 2025 (gmt 0)

I, personally, have never had any interaction of any kind with TikTok. Pretty sure the Venn diagram of my target audience and TikTok�s target audience is as close to two non-overlapping circles as makes no difference.

:: quick run to raw logs ::

Within the present calendar year, most recently in September, I find an aggregate total of 124 requests. All include supporting files; in blocked requests, that means one small image that appears in the error document. But never the favicon. And no rhyme or reason for the requests--rarely a single image, generally a page--except that I can say with confidence that some of them cannot possibly be of interest to the TikTok demographic. (This is assuming that TikTok, unlike the former Twitter, doesn't have a niche fraction of users who are interested in grownup material. Does Neil DeGrasse Tyson have a TikTok?)

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