Kuldeep Paul

Model training · Timpi

Timpibot

Scrapes data for Timpi's decentralised index, which is also used for LLM training.

Compiled by · Updated Oct 29, 2026

9.6%of top sites fully block Timpibot
548sites blocking, of 5,701 with robots.txt
85of the top 1,000 block it
Operator
Timpi
Purpose
Model training
Used for
Timpi search and LLM data
Obeys robots.txt
Unclear
robots.txt token
Timpibot
User-agent string
Not published by the operator
IP list
Not published
Official docs
None published

Block Timpibot in robots.txt

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

Well-known sites that block Timpibot

amazon.com #30, amazonvideo.com #85, msn.com #92, snapchat.com #157, nytimes.com #163, cnn.com #195, sciencedirect.com #224, canva.com #276, launchpad.net #281, amazon.co.uk #326, trustpilot.com #344, amazon.de #387, businessinsider.com #471, amazon.co.jp #490, behance.net #525, uol.com.br #535, wired.com #570, usatoday.com #617, dailymail.com #619, telegraph.co.uk #629, amazon.fr #632, amazon.ca #633, nintendo.com #635, amazon.in #676

Ranks from the Tranco list. Full per-site data in the robots.txt study.

Questions

What is Timpibot?

Timpibot is a model training bot operated by Timpi, used for Timpi search and LLM data. Scrapes data for Timpi's decentralised index, which is also used for LLM training.

How do I block Timpibot?

Add "User-agent: Timpibot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of each host you want to protect.

Does Timpibot respect robots.txt?

Timpi has not clearly documented whether Timpibot honours robots.txt.

How many websites block Timpibot?

In a Oct 29, 2026 analysis of the top 10,000 websites by Kuldeep Paul, 9.6% of sites with a robots.txt file fully disallowed Timpibot.

Analysis using this data

  1. Who blocks AI crawlers? What 10,000 robots.txt files revealPublishers block training, not answers; half of all blocklists leak; Cloudflare writes the most common AI policy.
  2. The opt-out asymmetry: you can block the small AI engines, not the big oneThe AI surfaces with the most users are the ones publishers can't refuse and can't measure.

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How to cite this data

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  1. Credit the source as “Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc” wherever you use a figure, chart or table from it.
  2. Link to this page (https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/timpibot), not to the download file, so readers can check the source of every number.
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In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's Timpibot — AI crawler directory (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.

APA

Paul, K. (2026). Timpibot — AI crawler directory [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/timpibot

MLA

Paul, Kuldeep. "Timpibot — AI crawler directory." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/timpibot.

Chicago

Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "Timpibot — AI crawler directory." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/timpibot.

BibTeX

@misc{paul2026timpibot, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {Timpibot — AI crawler directory}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/timpibot}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }

HTML link

<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/timpibot">Timpibot — AI crawler directory</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)