PetalBot
| Vendor | Huawei (Aspiegel) |
| Type | Search crawler (Petal Search) |
| robots.txt token | PetalBot |
| JavaScript rendering | Yes |
| Honors robots.txt | Yes |
| Vendor docs | aspiegel.com/petalbot |
User-Agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0;) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; PetalBot;+https://aspiegel.com/petalbot)Purpose
PetalBot crawls for Petal Search, Huawei's search engine integrated into Huawei's AppGallery and HMS Core. Primary market: Huawei device owners in regions where Google Play is restricted (China, Russia, some EU markets post-2020 device launches).
Operated by Aspiegel Limited (Huawei's Ireland-based subsidiary).
Quirks
- Aggressive crawl behavior reported by some webmasters in 2020–2021;
Huawei subsequently improved its rate limiting.
- Smaller search market share, but meaningful traffic if your target
market includes Huawei device users.
How to allow / block
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /