ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, introduced Bytespider, a web scraping bot designed to harvest data from the internet at unprecedented speeds.

The rollout of Bytespider occurs amid significant challenges, including impending regulatory scrutiny by the United States government regarding TikTok’s operations tied to national security concerns.

Research by Kasada, a bot management specialist, indicates that Bytespider may be the most aggressive scraper currently in operation.