Search engines · Baidu

Baiduspider

The crawler of Baidu, the largest search engine in China.

Operator: Baidu
Purpose: Search index. The crawlers behind Google, Bing and the other search engines. Blocking one drops you out of its results.
robots.txt token: Baiduspider
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)
Documentation: www.baidu.com/search/spider.html

Block Baiduspider

Add a group naming it to /robots.txt. Compliant crawlers stop before requesting any page. A firewall rule on the user agent is the only way to enforce it against crawlers that ignore robots.txt.

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

Allow Baiduspider when everything else is blocked

A group naming the bot wins over User-agent: *, so an explicit allow lets it in while your catch-all rules stay in place.

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Does Baiduspider reach your site?

The checker applies your robots.txt the way Baiduspider does, then requests your page with the user agent above, alongside 29 other bots.

Other search engines: Googlebot, Bingbot, DuckDuckBot, Applebot, PetalBot, YandexBot.

Build a complete file with the robots.txt generator.