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Baiduspider

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Baiduspider is the search engine crawler for the search engine Baidu. Operated by Baidu.

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Assessment

Search Engine Crawler

What is Baiduspider?

Baiduspider is a web crawler operated by Baidu. Baiduspider is the search engine crawler for the search engine Baidu. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Baiduspider

Operator

Baidu

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

Some reports found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

Some reports found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

Several independent site owners report the same problem

Reddit discussion

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Baiduspider crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Baidu as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Baiduspider

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Baiduspider in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Baiduspider from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

# Allow Baiduspider full access
User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /