Crawls for Petal Search and Huawei assistant features. It is operated by Huawei.

Does PetalBot respect robots.txt?

Yes. Huawei states that PetalBot honours robots.txt directives, so a Disallow rule for the PetalBot token is sufficient.

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HuaweiHonours robots.txt

Crawls for Petal Search and Huawei assistant features. Matters mainly for Huawei-device markets.

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)

How to verify it

Reverse DNS to petalsearch.com.

What blocking costs

Matters mainly for Huawei-device markets.

robots.txt rule

# Block PetalBot
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

# Allow everything else
User-agent: *
Allow: /

Robots.txt is enough

Huawei documents PetalBot as honouring robots.txt. Verify with your logs after deploying — a spoofed agent will keep coming.

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