Huawei · Huawei Petal

PetalBot

Indexes pages so Huawei Petal can find and cite them. Here is how to recognise it, verify it, and allow or block it.

Company: Huawei
Product: Huawei Petal
Why it visits: Indexing for AI / search answers
How to verify: Name only
User-agent contains: PetalBot

How to tell a real PetalBot from a fake

Huawei publishes no IP list and no DNS names for PetalBot, so a visit can’t be proven real. Anyone can put “PetalBot” in a user-agent. Treat it as unverified, and watch how much it crawls.

Check a PetalBot visit

Allow or block PetalBot in robots.txt

Block it everywhere:

User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: /

Allow it everywhere:

User-agent: PetalBot Allow: /

Fake bots ignore robots.txt: block them by address in your firewall instead.