Timpibot user agent
Operated by Timpi
Timpibot is Timpi's crawler, reported as collecting web data that Timpi makes available for training AI models.
The Timpibot bot at a glance
- Timpibot is operated by Timpi and collects public web pages that may be used to train AI models.
- The robots.txt token for Timpibot is Timpibot.
- Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings.
- Timpibot robots.txt support: Not documented.
- Recommendation for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Your choice.
What is Timpibot?
Timpi runs a decentralized index and offers its data for AI training.
Timpi has not published a crawler page that names Timpibot.
Should you block Timpibot?
Blocking Timpibot is a business decision: it protects your content but can lower how well AI products know your brand.
| Effect on search rankings | Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings. |
|---|---|
| Effect on AI visibility | Blocking keeps your future pages out of that company's training data, so its models may know less about your brand over time. It does not remove you from that company's AI search, which uses a separate bot. |
| Follows robots.txt | Not documented |
| Recommendation | Your choice |
How to block or allow Timpibot
Put the robots.txt rule in the file at the root of every domain and subdomain, for example https://example.com/robots.txt. The token Timpibot is matched case-insensitively. robots.txt alone may not stop Timpibot, so add the Nginx, Apache or Cloudflare rule as well.
robots.txt: block
# Block Timpibot
User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow Timpibot
User-agent: Timpibot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep Timpibot out of private areas only
User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to Timpibot
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Timpibot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to Timpibot
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Timpibot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "Timpibot")How to verify real Timpibot traffic
Timpi publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for Timpibot, so the user agent cannot be verified. Anyone can send the same string. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
How to find Timpibot in your server logs
Search the web server access log for the token. The command below counts Timpibot requests per URL on Nginx or Apache.
grep -i "Timpibot" access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20For a full report per AI bot, upload the log to the AI Log File Analyzer, a free tool by Justin Hà.
Timpibot FAQ
Timpibot uses the robots.txt token "Timpibot". Timpi does not publish a full user-agent string, so match the token inside the User-Agent header.
Timpi has not documented how Timpibot treats robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule and back it with a server rule if the traffic matters to you.
Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings. Blocking keeps your future pages out of that company's training data, so its models may know less about your brand over time. It does not remove you from that company's AI search, which uses a separate bot.
Add two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of each domain and subdomain: "User-agent: Timpibot" followed by "Disallow: /". The token is case-insensitive. Changes can take up to 24 hours to be picked up.
Not reliably. Timpi publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for Timpibot, so anyone can send the same user agent. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
Search your server access log for "Timpibot", for example with: grep -i "Timpibot" access.log. The AI Log File Analyzer by Justin Hà counts visits per AI bot from an uploaded log file.
Sources: Public bot registry. Last reviewed by Justin Hà.
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