PetalBot

What is PetalBot?

About

PetalBot is Huawei's web crawler that indexes PC and mobile websites to build search databases for Petal Search engine and provide AI-powered content recommendations for Huawei Assistant and other Huawei AI services. You can see how often PetalBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

AI search crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on many factors, and can even happen on-demand in response to a user query.

Type

AI Search Crawler
Indexes web content for AI-powered search results

Detail

Operated By Huawei
Last Updated 10 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

7%
7% of top websites are blocking PetalBot
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Country of Origin

Singapore
PetalBot normally visits from Singapore

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Search Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Health
Science
Pets and Animals
Shopping
Travel and Transportation
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Robots.txt

Should I Block PetalBot?

Probably not. AI search crawlers power AI search engines, which are a useful way for users to discover your website. AI search engine assistants usually cite their sources and provide links to their results.

How Do I Block PetalBot?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block PetalBot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

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) 
# robots.txt
# This should block PetalBot

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

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