What is PetalBot?
PetalBot is Huawei's web crawler that indexes PC and mobile websites to build search databases for Petal Search engine and provide AI-powered content recommendations for Huawei Assistant and other Huawei AI services. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Huawei |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 11, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
PetalBot revisits your site on a flexible schedule, often requesting several pages in a burst. Activity usually increases when your content changes or its index refreshes, with quiet intervals between crawl passes.
PetalBot's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0;) AppleWebKit/537.36 (HTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; PetalBot;+https://webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot) |
How To Block PetalBot With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block PetalBot from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI search crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: PetalBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/petalbot
Disallow: /Global Statistics for PetalBot
As of August 11, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
12% of top websites block PetalBot in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Search Crawler Traffic
1.9% of all web traffic came from AI search crawlers.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by PetalBot.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block PetalBot?
Usually not. Blocking PetalBot keeps your pages out of its AI search results and can eliminate referral traffic from that channel. It does not improve traditional search rankings. For context, 12% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for PetalBot.
Does PetalBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. PetalBot is expected to follow robots.txt directives, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether PetalBot respects it.
Does PetalBot Access Private Content?
No special access. PetalBot can reach only content available to anonymous visitors. Make sure staging sites and other sensitive areas require authentication.
Why Is PetalBot Visiting My Website?
PetalBot is updating an AI search index so your pages can appear in its results. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or mentions of your domain.
How Can I Tell if PetalBot Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks PetalBot visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "PetalBot". Look for bursts that follow links across several pages and recur over time. Because PetalBot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.