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.
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| Operated By | Huawei |
| Last Updated | 13 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Search Crawlers
Top Visited Website Categories
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?
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) |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: PetalBot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/petalbot
Disallow: /
⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.