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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
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

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
Category
Search Engine Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
baidu
User-agent patterns
Baiduspider
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Mobile/13B143 Safari/601.1 (compatible; Baiduspider-render/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)
Main use cases
Web page indexingSearch result rankingContent discoverySitemap processing

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: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Baiduspider. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Baidu's documentation.

Traffic & trends

Cloudflare Radar traffic
5.4%

Share of bot traffic observed by Cloudflare Radar.

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated July 21, 2026