Timpibot: Timpi's Training Crawler
What is Timpibot?
Timpibot collects web content for the Timpi decentralised search dataset. Timpibot feeds the Timpi decentralised search dataset, and it attaches no citation, so blocking it removes no answer placement.
Key facts
- Timpibot is operated by Timpi, and its purpose is dataset: collects content into a public dataset that many model builders draw from.
- Timpi publishes no full user-agent string for Timpibot, so Kymo matches the token Timpibot observed in real logs.
- The robots.txt token for Timpibot is Timpibot, and Timpi publishes no compliance statement for Timpibot.
- Timpibot never sends a visitor to your site, and Timpibot attaches no citation when it uses your content.
Specification
| Operator | Timpi |
|---|---|
| Purpose | DatasetCollects content into a public dataset that many model builders draw from. Blocking it has broad downstream effect and no direct citation cost. |
| Agent kind | CrawlerAutonomous crawler. Appears in your logs under its own user-agent. |
| User agent | Not documented by Timpi. Kymo matches this agent on the token Timpibot, observed in real logs rather than published in operator documentation. |
| robots.txt token | Timpibot |
| robots.txt compliance | No operator statement located |
| Verification | No published method, user agent is the only signal |
| Sends referral traffic | No |
| Attaches a citation | No |
| Status | Active |
| Legacy Kymo category | training |
| Source | Observed in real logs, no operator documentation locatedTimpi publishes no crawler documentation that Kymo could locate. Everything on this page comes from observed traffic, not from a vendor page. |
| Verified on |
What this looks like in your logs
grep -i 'Timpibot' access.log
Timpi publishes no full user-agent string for Timpibot, so the rest of the line varies and only the token Timpibot is dependable. Kymo matches on that token, case-insensitively, for the same reason.
What Timpibot does not do
Timpibot does not send you a visitor, and it attaches no citation, so a read by it can never turn into a click.
Timpibot does not decide whether any particular product cites you, because it only fills a dataset that other companies choose to use or ignore.
Timpi publishes no documentation for Timpibot at all, so no crawl frequency and no compliance statement exists to quote.
How Kymo classifies it
Kymo files Timpibot under Timpi as training, classified from the HTTP request on the server rather than from anything running in a browser.
A hit from Timpibot appears on the Crawlers dashboard and is deliberately left out of the AI Visibility numbers. A training run sends nobody, so a read by it has no click to compare against.
Seen on our own sites
Not seen on kymo.in or remotestack.in in the 90 days up to 15 Sep 2026.
Allow it or block it
Blocking it removes your content from the Timpi dataset. Low request volume on most sites, and no direct citation surface.
| Allow it if | Block it if |
|---|---|
| You accept your content entering a dataset that many companies draw on, not only Timpi. | You want to limit how far your content travels, because a dataset reaches further than any single crawler. |
robots.txt directives
Both blocks below address Timpibot only. Rules for one token never apply to another, even from the same operator.
Allow Timpibot
User-agent: Timpibot Allow: /
Block Timpibot
User-agent: Timpibot Disallow: /
Questions
How do I know a request claiming to be Timpibot is genuine?
Timpi publishes no verification method for Timpibot, so the user-agent string is the only signal available, and anyone can send one. Treat a claimed Timpibot request as unproven.
Does blocking Timpibot affect my Google ranking?
No. A Google ranking is decided by Googlebot, which is a separate crawler. Timpibot collects content into a dataset that other companies license, and Google does not read that dataset to rank pages.
Will I see Timpibot in Google Analytics?
No. Google Analytics runs a JavaScript tag in a visitor's browser, and Timpibot reads your HTML and leaves without running any script. Server-side logging is the only way to record it.
Does Timpibot send traffic back to my site?
No. Timpibot takes content and sends nothing back. A hit appears in your logs as a request with no visitor behind it.
Related crawlers
All AI crawlers and control tokens
See this bot in your own logs
Timpibot copies your content into a dataset other companies then use, and a browser-based analytics tool records none of it.
Kymo reads the HTTP request on your server, so a crawler that never runs JavaScript is still recorded. You see which bots reached the site, which pages they took and how often, next to your human traffic.
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