Crawler operator
Timpi
In short
Timpi's crawling is done by contributors' own machines, nodes that earn $NTMPI tokens for collecting data, and the company says its index holds more than 2.2 billion pages. Site owners meet the crawler only through other sites' robots.txt files, where it appears as Timpibot. Timpi gives no opt-out route, and the crawler page paths we tried returned 404.
- Type
- Crawler operator
- Homepage
- timpi.io
- In one line
- Operator of an independent search index built by a decentralised network of contributor nodes; its crawler appears in robots.txt files as Timpibot, but Timpi publishes no crawler documentation for site owners.
- Last read
- 2026-11-05
What Timpi does for this layer
From the vendor's own pages
Timpi sells four products on its own index: Timpi Data (APIs for developers), ORCA (workflow orchestration), Timpi Ads ("Advertising for humans and AI agents") and Timpi Search. (timpi.io) Timpi's DePIN page tells contributors to buy a Node Access NFT, assemble the recommended hardware and register a node to earn rewards in $NTMPI tokens. (timpi.io)
Claims the vendor makes about itself
Timpi's About page claims an index of more than 2.2 billion web pages and more than 100 billion indexed data items. (timpi.io) Timpi says its infrastructure runs on more than 1,700 decentralised nodes with more than 1 PB of distributed storage and 16,000 TFLOPS of compute. (timpi.io) Timpi's comparison post names Collector, Guardian and GeoCore nodes and says a component it calls the Timpi Autonomous Protocol coordinates crawling and indexing. (timpi.io) Timpi's blog says its node network once indexed over 5 billion pages in 48 hours during tests, and that its nodes run on machines already in use by contributors rather than in data centers. (timpi.io)
What our crawl saw
Requests for timpi.io/timpibot, /crawler and /bot returned HTTP 404 on 2026-11-05, and the timpi.io sitemap read the same day lists no crawler or bot page. (timpi.io)
Products and plans
| Product | What it does | Price model | From | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timpi Search | Search engine on Timpi's own index. | |||
| Timpi Data | APIs that give developers and AI systems access to the index. | |||
| Timpi DePIN nodes | Contributor-run nodes that collect and process data for the index, rewarded in $NTMPI tokens. | |||
Standards
| Standard | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| RFC 9309 (robots.txt) | No statement | No robots.txt statement for Timpibot on timpi.io (sitemap and bot paths checked 2026-11-05). |
| Web Bot Auth | No statement | No key directory at timpi.io (HTTP 404, 2026-11-05). |
| Published IP list | No statement | No IP list published (checked 2026-11-05). |
Our checks
| Check | Result | Method | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homepage fetch | HTTP 200 | GET with the crawl user agent after a robots.txt check | 2026-11-05 |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | HTTP 404, text/html | GET https://timpi.io/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory with the crawl user agent after a robots.txt check | 2026-11-05 |
What Timpi does not do
- Timpi publishes no user agent string, robots.txt statement, IP list or signature key directory for Timpibot (checked 2026-11-05).
- Timpi gives site owners no stated opt-out route for its crawler on any page read.
Reading notes
The Timpibot token comes from robots.txt files in our own crawl of the web, not from Timpi; see the Timpibot row.
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Sources
Last reviewed 2026-11-05