Baiduspider

Baidu · Search engines · json

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenBaiduspider
User-agent containsBaiduspider
OperatorBaidu
CategorySearch engines
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify byreverse DNS

What it is

Baidu's search crawler, and the ingest path for Baidu's Ernie-backed answers.

What blocking it costs you

Removal from Baidu Search, which matters only if you want Chinese-language traffic.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)

Allow it instead

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://help.baidu.com/question?prod_id=99&class=0&id=3001
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility