ua-tracer by Paul Kinlan

recent traces · ua-tracer

ua-tracer

what does a user agent actually fetch, follow & run?

All recent homepage requests, newest first. This page does not mint a new trace (unlike /), so you can browse the log without adding noise.

Recent homepage requests

Filter by user agent and the matching requests appear right below. Showing requests whose user agent contains Bytespider.

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TimestampUser AgentAssets
2026-07-06 04:21:09.405 UTC
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; https://zhanzhang.toutiao.com/)
12
JS ranCSSJSmoduleimgcss-bgpreloadiframeiframe-img@import
2026-07-05 22:19:19.218 UTC
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; https://zhanzhang.toutiao.com/)
13
JS ranCSSJSmoduleimgcss-bgpreloadiframeiframe-img@import
2026-07-05 15:11:45.962 UTC
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; https://zhanzhang.toutiao.com/)
13
JS ranCSSJSmoduleimgcss-bgpreloadiframeiframe-img@import
2026-07-04 04:03:34.268 UTC
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; spider-feedback@bytedance.com)
15
no JSCSSimgcss-bgpreloadog-imgtwitter-imgiframeiframe-img@import
2026-07-03 04:08:01.302 UTC
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; spider-feedback@bytedance.com)
29
no JSCSSimgcss-bgpreloadog-imgtwitter-imgiframeiframe-img@import

By user agent

Running counts across all 6841 homepage requests (2 distinct agents). Click one to set the filter above.

User AgentRequestsJS ran
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; https://zhanzhang.toutiao.com/)
3 3
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; spider-feedback@bytedance.com)
2 0

Unsolicited / well-known requests

Paths a user agent fetched on its own that ua-tracer never links to: robots.txt, sitemap.xml, /.well-known/*, llms.txt, the root favicon, and similar. Reveals what an agent probes on its own initiative.

Filtered to path /robots.txt to user agent Bytespider. clear filters

By path

Each unsolicited path with its request count and how many distinct user agents hit it. Click a path to see the individual requests; click a user agent below to reverse-look-up everything that UA did.

PathRequestsDistinct UAs
/robots.txt 7 2

Requests (7 shown)

The Related trace column links a probe to a homepage trace from the same user agent and IP within 30 minutes (the same crawler that fetched a well-known file usually also loaded /). The offset shows how long before/after the probe that trace was minted.

TimestampPathUser Agent (click for reverse lookup)Related trace
2026-08-08 10:57:41.484 UTC /robots.txt Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; https://bytedance.sg.larkoffice.com/docx/K5bxdypulop3IIxrJb0lOjLVgFe)
2026-08-07 10:30:26.380 UTC /robots.txt Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; https://bytedance.sg.larkoffice.com/docx/K5bxdypulop3IIxrJb0lOjLVgFe)
2026-08-06 12:47:07.385 UTC /robots.txt Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; https://bytedance.sg.larkoffice.com/docx/K5bxdypulop3IIxrJb0lOjLVgFe)
2026-08-06 10:18:27.675 UTC /robots.txt Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; https://bytedance.sg.larkoffice.com/docx/K5bxdypulop3IIxrJb0lOjLVgFe)
2026-08-05 10:16:24.108 UTC /robots.txt Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; https://bytedance.sg.larkoffice.com/docx/K5bxdypulop3IIxrJb0lOjLVgFe)
2026-08-04 09:29:14.030 UTC /robots.txt Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; https://bytedance.sg.larkoffice.com/docx/K5bxdypulop3IIxrJb0lOjLVgFe)
2026-08-04 02:00:50.428 UTC /robots.txt Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; https://bytedance.sg.larkoffice.com/docx/K5bxdypulop3IIxrJb0lOjLVgFe)

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