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PetalBot

Crawler of Huawei's Petal search engine, which also powers content recommendations in Huawei Assistant and AI Search. Blocking it removes your pages from Petal search.

robots.txt name
PetalBot
User agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;PetalBot;+https://webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot)
Category
Search indexes: Crawl the web to build the index of a search engine or AI search.
Follows robots.txt
Yes
Official documentation
https://webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot

Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.

Block or allow it in robots.txt

Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

To allow it everywhere except one folder:

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /private/

Is it really this bot?

Anyone can copy a user agent, and Huawei does not publish IP ranges for this bot. A reverse DNS lookup of the IP address may help; check the official documentation.

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