PetalBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTPetalBot 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.
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.
Identification
PetalBotWhy 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
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: /
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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