What is TinEye-bot-live?
TinEye-bot-live is the web crawler operated by TinEye, a reverse image search engine. This bot indexes images from websites to help users find where images appear online, track image usage, and locate higher resolution versions. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | TinEye |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 11, 2026 |
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Category
Expected Behavior
TinEye-bot-live follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl directives more reliably than most other bots.
TinEye-bot-live's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; TinEye-bot-live/1.31; +http://www.tineye.com/crawler.html) |
How To Block TinEye-bot-live With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block TinEye-bot-live from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all search engine crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: TinEye-bot-live # https://knownagents.com/agents/tineye-bot-live
Disallow: /Global Statistics for TinEye-bot-live
As of August 11, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
0% of top websites block TinEye-bot-live in their robots.txt files.
Overall Search Engine Crawler Traffic
15.8% of all web traffic came from search engine crawlers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block TinEye-bot-live?
No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. TinEye-bot-live supplies its index, so blocking it can eliminate your visibility and organic traffic there. Nearly every website should allow this category. Almost none of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for TinEye-bot-live.
Does TinEye-bot-live Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. TinEye-bot-live is expected to follow robots.txt directives, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether TinEye-bot-live respects it.
Does TinEye-bot-live Access Private Content?
No special access. TinEye-bot-live can reach only content available to anonymous visitors and does not sign in. Make sure sensitive content is not public by mistake.
Why Is TinEye-bot-live Visiting My Website?
TinEye-bot-live is adding new or changed pages to its search index. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or direct submission.
How Can I Tell if TinEye-bot-live Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks TinEye-bot-live visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "TinEye-bot-live". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because TinEye-bot-live does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.