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Search index crawler from Timpi

Timpibot

In short

Timpibot is Timpi's search index crawler. The token to write in robots.txt is Timpibot. The operator publishes nothing a site can check. 9.8 percent of 5,938 top-10,000 sites with a parsed robots.txt disallow it at the root (crawl of 2026-11-04). Timpibot's operator publishes no robots.txt statement; we checked on 2026-11-04.

Operator
Timpi Vendor profile: Timpi
Purpose
Search index All search index rows. Builds a search index that sends visitors back. Refusing it removes pages from that product.
User-agent string
No exact string is published. What the operator or a third party says: Not published
robots.txt token
Timpibot Matched case-insensitively (RFC 9309). The token and the user-agent string are different things.
Respects robots.txt

No documentation

operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04). timpi.io/crawler and /timpibot returned 404 on 2026-11-04. Source, read 2026-11-04.

Operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04).

Verification

Nothing published

The operator publishes no list, reverse DNS pattern or key directory a site owner can check. Documentation, read 2026-11-04.

IP ranges
Not published.
Rate behaviour
Not published.
Block rate

9.8% of 5,938 top-10,000 sites with a parsed robots.txt disallow Timpibot at the root (579 sites). 5.8% name it; 4.0% refuse it only through a * group. Rank 19 of 31 tokens measured.

Across all 8,624 parsed robots.txt files in the crawl: 7.0% (4.2% named). Crawl of 2026-11-04; report.

Documentation
Operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04). Closest page read.

Note. Decentralised search index operator.

Allow and refuse lines

To allow Timpibot

User-agent: Timpibot
Allow: /

To refuse Timpibot

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

Refusing or allowing in robots.txt states a preference. Enforcement of a refusal belongs in your WAF; see how to verify the identity above.

Timpi in the Verification Ledger

Publishes nothing. All operators.

IP lists
publishes nothing
Reverse DNS
publishes nothing
Key directory
publishes nothing
Cloudflare
not checked
Visa TAP registry
no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04)
Mastercard Agent Pay
no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04)

Sources

Last reviewed 2026-11-04