Kuldeep Paul

AI search index · Huawei

PetalBot

Huawei's crawler for Petal Search and AI search features.

Compiled by · Updated Oct 29, 2026

13.6%of top sites fully block PetalBot
776sites blocking, of 5,701 with robots.txt
91of the top 1,000 block it
Operator
Huawei
Purpose
AI search index
Used for
Petal Search and Huawei assistant
Obeys robots.txt
Yes
robots.txt token
PetalBot
User-agent string
Not published by the operator
IP list
Not published
Official docs
None published

Block PetalBot in robots.txt

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

Blocking a search or user-triggered bot removes your pages from that assistant's answers. To opt out of model training only, block the operator's training crawler instead.

Questions

What is PetalBot?

PetalBot is a ai search index bot operated by Huawei, used for Petal Search and Huawei assistant. Huawei's crawler for Petal Search and AI search features.

How do I block PetalBot?

Add "User-agent: PetalBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of each host you want to protect.

Does PetalBot respect robots.txt?

Yes. Huawei documents that PetalBot honours robots.txt directives.

How many websites block PetalBot?

In a Oct 29, 2026 analysis of the top 10,000 websites by Kuldeep Paul, 13.6% of sites with a robots.txt file fully disallowed PetalBot.

Analysis using this data

  1. Who blocks AI crawlers? What 10,000 robots.txt files revealPublishers block training, not answers; half of all blocklists leak; Cloudflare writes the most common AI policy.
  2. The opt-out asymmetry: you can block the small AI engines, not the big oneThe AI surfaces with the most users are the ones publishers can't refuse and can't measure.

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In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's PetalBot — AI crawler directory (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.

APA

Paul, K. (2026). PetalBot — AI crawler directory [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/petalbot

MLA

Paul, Kuldeep. "PetalBot — AI crawler directory." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/petalbot.

Chicago

Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "PetalBot — AI crawler directory." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/petalbot.

BibTeX

@misc{paul2026petalbot, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {PetalBot — AI crawler directory}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/petalbot}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }

HTML link

<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/petalbot">PetalBot — AI crawler directory</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)