PetalBot
Huawei's search crawler - builds the Petal Search index that Huawei's assistant and AI features draw on across its device ecosystem.
Reference reviewed by Sona
| Operator | Huawei |
|---|---|
| Powers | Petal Search and Huawei AI answers |
| Purpose | Search & answers |
| User-agent token | PetalBot |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes |
PetalBot crawls for Petal Search, the default search engine on Huawei devices, and the index it builds feeds Huawei's assistant and AI answer features for a large device base, particularly outside Western markets.
PetalBot is documented by Huawei, publishes its user-agent, and respects robots.txt directives for its token.
Full user-agent string
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)
Allow PetalBot
Visibility across Huawei's device ecosystem and its AI answer surfaces, which are significant in many international markets.
User-agent: PetalBot Allow: /
Block PetalBot
Huawei's ecosystem isn't a relevant audience for you and you prefer to reduce crawl volume.
User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: /
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