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Petal

PetalBot

IndexingNo fetched rangesVerified July 2026

What it is

Crawler for Huawei's Petal Search.

In Aiola's taxonomy, Indexing means crawled for ai or search indexing.

User agent

Look for the match token inside the complete HTTP User-Agent header. Tokens can be spoofed, so use the network checks below for authentication.

Full example User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PetalBot; +https://webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot)
Case-insensitive match token
PetalBot

Official IP ranges

Petal has not published official IP ranges that Aiola successfully fetched for PetalBot. Aiola does not list cloud-provider ranges or community guesses as if they authenticated this crawler.

Verify authenticity

Start with the source IP recorded by your trusted edge or server, not an untrusted forwarded header.

Reverse- and forward-DNS double lookup
host REQUEST_IP
# Confirm the hostname ends in an official suffix
host RETURNED_HOSTNAME
# The forward lookup must return REQUEST_IP

For production checks, test against every current prefix in the vendor feed. Re-fetch feeds regularly: a July 2026 snapshot is evidence of publication, not a permanent firewall list.

Control it with robots.txt

Petal documents crawler controls for this bot family. Robots.txt can direct cooperative crawling, but it cannot prove that a request is authentic.

Allow PetalBot
User-agent: PetalBot
Allow: /
Block PetalBot
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

Read Petal's official crawler documentation ↗

Track it

Aiola tracks this crawler on your site — crawls, pages, trends. See when PetalBot arrives, which URLs it requests, and how activity changes over time.

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FAQ

What is PetalBot?

Crawler for Huawei's Petal Search.

What user-agent token identifies PetalBot?

Match the case-insensitive token “PetalBot” in the User-Agent header. A matching header alone does not authenticate the sender.

Can I verify PetalBot by IP address?

No official PetalBot CIDR snapshot was successfully fetched for this verification date. Do not treat an arbitrary cloud IP as proof of identity.

Can robots.txt block PetalBot?

Petal documents crawler controls for this bot family. Robots.txt can direct cooperative crawling, but it cannot prove that a request is authentic. Use the specific “PetalBot” group when you want a rule for this identity without changing rules for every crawler.

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