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What is Timpibot? How to allow or block Timpi's crawler

User-agent string to match in robots.txt and server logs: Timpibot

Operator

Timpi

Purpose

AI search & live answers

robots.txt

Compliance unknown

Official docs

None published

Timpibot builds the index for Timpi, a decentralized search project whose index is also positioned as training-quality data for AI. It's a young project with a smaller footprint than the major crawlers — you'll see it occasionally in logs rather than constantly.

Does Timpibot respect robots.txt?

Timpi publishes limited crawler documentation; compliance reports are sparse. If blocking matters, verify behavior in your logs and back the block with a firewall rule.

Verify it's really Timpibot

Timpi publishes no IP-range file for Timpibot, so it can only be identified by its user-agent string — which anything can send. Treat traffic claiming this agent as unverified, and prefer a reverse-DNS check where the operator documents one before acting on it.

Block Timpibot with robots.txt

robots.txt — block
User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

⚠ Because Timpibot's robots.txt compliance is unreliable, pair this with a firewall or CDN rule matching the user-agent string if blocking actually matters to you.

Explicitly allow Timpibot

robots.txt — allow
User-agent: Timpibot
Allow: /

Block Timpibot at the server or CDN

Timpibot's robots.txt compliance is unreliable, so a robots.txt rule alone may not stop it. These enforce the block. Matching on the user-agent string still trusts a self-declared header — and no IP-range file exists for this agent, so treat it as best-effort.

nginx
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Timpibot") {
    return 403;
}
apache — .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Timpibot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
cloudflare — WAF expression
(http.user_agent contains "Timpibot")

Find Timpibot in your server logs

shell
grep -i "Timpibot" /var/log/nginx/access.log | wc -l

Should you block Timpibot?

For most sites, no. Timpibot powers visibility: blocking it removes your pages from the cited answers Timpi's assistant shows its users — the AI-era equivalent of de-indexing yourself from a search engine. Block it only if you deliberately don't want that audience. Our guide on blocking AI bots covers the trade-offs in detail.

Check and monitor Timpibot on your site

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Frequently asked questions

What is Timpibot?

Timpibot is Timpi's agent for AI search and live answers. Crawler for Timpi's decentralized search index.

Does Timpibot respect robots.txt?

Timpi publishes limited crawler documentation; compliance reports are sparse. If blocking matters, verify behavior in your logs and back the block with a firewall rule.

How do I block Timpibot?

Add "User-agent: Timpibot" followed by "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt file. Because this bot's robots.txt compliance is not reliable, enforce the block with firewall or CDN rules (for example a Cloudflare WAF rule matching the user agent) if it matters to you.

Does blocking Timpibot hurt my Google rankings?

No. Timpibot is separate from Googlebot, which handles Google Search indexing. Blocking Timpibot has no effect on your traditional search rankings, but it does remove your pages from the AI answers Timpi's assistant serves to its users.

How can I tell if Timpibot is crawling my site?

Search your server access logs for the string "Timpibot" — for example: grep -i "Timpibot" /var/log/nginx/access.log | wc -l. Our free AI Bot Log Analyzer does this in your browser: paste a log file and it counts hits per AI crawler, including Timpibot, with per-path breakdowns.

How do I use Timpibot?

You don't — Timpibot isn't a tool you run. It's Timpi's own crawler, operated by Timpi, that visits your site from their infrastructure. The only control you have over it is whether you allow or block it, via robots.txt or a server rule. If you're looking to crawl other sites yourself, you'd write your own crawler or use a crawling library; sending "Timpibot" as your user agent would be impersonating Timpi.

Where is the official Timpi documentation for Timpibot?

Timpi publishes no official documentation for Timpibot. That absence is itself worth noting: an undocumented crawler gives you no stated policy to hold it to, and no published IP ranges to verify it against.

Part of our directory of every known AI crawler, refreshed monthly. Last verified: 2026-08-14.