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PetalBot

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PetalBot is to access both PC and mobile websites and establish an index database which enables users to search the content of your site in Petal search engine and present content recommendations for the user in Huawei Assistant and AI Search services, both services are powered by Petal Search engine. Operated by Huawei.

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

What is PetalBot?

PetalBot is a web crawler operated by Huawei. PetalBot is to access both PC and mobile websites and establish an index database which enables users to search the content of your site in Petal search engine and present content recommendations for the user in Huawei Assistant and AI Search services, both services are powered by Petal Search engine. It is part of the growing wave of AI-powered crawlers that collect web data for training and improving AI models.

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

Identification

Bot name
PetalBot
Operator
Huawei
Category
AI Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
petalbot
User-agent patterns
PetalBot
User-agent strings
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)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;PetalBot;+https://webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot)
Main use cases
AI model training data collectionContent analysisWeb data extraction

Why it crawls your site

PetalBot crawls websites to collect and process web content for AI model training and improvement. It is operated by Huawei as part of their AI and machine learning infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow PetalBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for PetalBot 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 PetalBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

# Allow PetalBot full access
User-agent: PetalBot
Allow: /
Allow & verify

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

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Last updated July 21, 2026