---
schema_version: "newruntime-reader-dossiers-v1"
type: "reader_dossier"
slug: "chatglm-spider"
kind: "ai_training"
operator: "Zhipu AI (unconfirmed; UA claims zhipuai.cn)"
researched_at: "2026-10-23"
confidence: "low"
json_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/chatglm-spider.json"
canonical_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/chatglm-spider/"
---

# ChatGLM-Spider

> Claims to be Zhipu AI's crawler (UA 'ChatGLM-Spider/1.0; +https://zhipuai.cn/'); third-party directories say it collects data to train and evaluate ChatGLM/GLM models. No Zhipu documentation found.

## Dossier

- Kind: AI model crawlers
- Operator: Zhipu AI (unconfirmed; UA claims zhipuai.cn) (https://chatglm.cn/)
- Documentation: none found
- robots.txt tokens: ChatGLM-Spider
- Feeds: model training
- Respects robots.txt: Not documented. Directories disagree on robots.txt compliance; no verification method published.
- Verification: No published method
- Labels matched in our logs: chatglm-spider

## Why it matters to New Runtime (our interpretation)

Possible GLM training ingestion; unverified identity.

## Observed behaviour

- Baseline 2026-10-24 (94-day window): 9 requests on 4 days; first seen 2026-09-25, last seen 2026-10-21; Returning.
- Live numbers: https://newruntime.com/bot-traffic-history.json and https://newruntime.com/crawler-journeys.json

## Sources

- https://knownagents.com/agents/chatglm-spider

Identity: A family name is what a client claims in its user agent. It is verified only when its request came from the operator's published IP ranges or passed forward-confirmed reverse DNS, as reported per family in /crawler-journeys.json. Anyone can claim any name.

All dossiers: https://newruntime.com/readers.md