Search engines · Huawei

PetalBot

Huawei’s crawler for Petal Search, the default search on Huawei phones outside China.

Operator: Huawei
Purpose: Search index. The crawlers behind Google, Bing and the other search engines. Blocking one drops you out of its results.
robots.txt token: PetalBot
User agent: 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)
Documentation: webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot

Block PetalBot

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: PetalBot
Disallow: /

Allow PetalBot 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: PetalBot
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Does PetalBot reach your site?

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

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

Build a complete file with the robots.txt generator.