AI search · Huawei
PetalBot
The crawler for Huawei's Petal Search and its AI features. Huawei documents that it honours robots.txt.
- Operator
- Huawei
- Purpose
- AI search indexers
- Feeds
- Petal Search
- robots.txt token
PetalBot- Honours robots.txt
- Honours robots.txt
- Documentation
- webmaster.petalsearch.com
What it looks like in server logs
A representative user-agent string. Version numbers change; the PetalBot token does not. Paste your own log line into the user-agent checker to confirm a match.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;PetalBot;+https://webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot)How to block PetalBot
Add this to the robots.txt at the root of your domain. Robots.txt is advisory: it works only on crawlers that choose to read it. This one is honours robots.txt according to its operator.
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /
To block every ai search indexer at once, or to block training while keeping AI search citations, use the robots.txt generator.
How to allow PetalBot while blocking others
A more specific User-agent group wins over a wildcard. Place this above any User-agent: * block that disallows paths, and PetalBot keeps full access.
User-agent: PetalBot
Allow: /
How to verify a genuine hit
The user-agent string is self-asserted: anyone can send it from a laptop, and scrapers routinely impersonate well-known crawlers to slip past filters aimed at unknown ones.
Huawei documents reverse-DNS verification against petalsearch.com hosts.