PetalBot

Huawei · Search engines · json

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /


robots.txt token	`PetalBot`
User-agent contains	`PetalBot`
Operator	Huawei
Category	Search engines
robots.txt	obeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify by	reverse DNS

What it is

Huawei's crawler for Petal Search, shipped as the default search on Huawei devices.

What blocking it costs you

Removal from Petal Search. Frequently blocked for volume rather than for policy.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0;) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; PetalBot;+https://webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot)

Allow it instead

User-agent: PetalBot
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://aspiegel.com/petalbot
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility