PetalBot
Operated by Aspiegel (Huawei's Ireland-based subsidiary). Crawls for Petal Search, the search engine integrated into Huawei's AppGallery and HMS Core for markets where Google Play is restricted.
Specs
| Vendor | Huawei |
| Category | SEARCH |
| robots.txt token | PetalBot |
| Renders JavaScript | RENDERS JS |
| Honors robots.txt | yes |
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)Considerations
- Aggressive crawl behavior was reported in 2020–2021 but Huawei has since improved rate-limiting.
- Meaningful traffic only if your target market includes Huawei device users.
robots.txt recipe
User-agent: PetalBot
Allow: /Sources: Aspiegel · PetalBot documentation