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PetalBot
Indexes websites for Petal Search and Huawei content recommendations.
Operated by Huawei
See your agent traffic PurposeWeb search
HTTP identifierPetalBot
IdentityVerify beyond the name
THE SIGNAL
What this visit tells you
PetalBot traffic can support search and assistant discovery. It does not identify a person using a Huawei device.
URL coverage
Crawl errors
Repeat crawls
Your next move
Review mobile page access and use the operator’s verification procedure before granting exceptions.
The technical details
MarkdownHow to identify it
Look for the PetalBot identifier in a request’s User-Agent. This is a name match, not identity verification. Version strings may change.
How to check identity
Follow PetalBot’s current forward-confirmed reverse DNS procedure. The linked page’s prose names aspiegel.com while its example uses petalsearch.com; confirm the current suffix with the operator before granting an exception.
Access and robots.txt
The operator documents robots.txt rules for this identifier.
Optional full-site opt-out. Merge with existing rules only if intended. robots.txt does not secure private content.
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /Seeing 403 or 404 responses?
403 means access was denied; 404 means the resource was not found. Compare the public path, request time, edge security event and origin response to find the cause.
Separate intended restrictions and secret-file probes from pages that should work. A User-Agent name alone does not justify allowing a request.
SourcesReviewed 2026-09-14
Identity and purpose are based on these sources. Analytics interpretation and suggested checks are Apostl guidance.
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