Crawler operator
Huawei
In short
A site that blocks PetalBot drops out of Petal search entirely, and pages already indexed can linger for several months after the visits stop. The crawl rate follows server capacity, site quality and how often a site changes, and Huawei's webmaster site offers a lookup tool for confirming an address, since no range file is published.
- Type
- Crawler operator
- Homepage
- huawei.com
- In one line
- Huawei runs PetalBot for the Petal search engine, whose index also feeds Huawei Assistant and AI Search; PetalBot follows robots.txt and is verified by reverse DNS under aspiegel.com or an IP lookup tool.
- Last read
- 2026-11-05
What Huawei does for this layer
From the vendor's own pages
Huawei says PetalBot indexes PC and mobile sites for the Petal search engine and for content recommendations in Huawei Assistant and AI Search services. (webmaster.petalsearch.com) Huawei publishes two PetalBot strings: a desktop string, Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;PetalBot;+https://webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot), and an Android mobile string with the same PetalBot token. (webmaster.petalsearch.com) Huawei says PetalBot complies with the robots protocol and that blocking it makes a site's pages unsearchable in the Petal search engine. (webmaster.petalsearch.com) Huawei tells site owners to verify PetalBot by reverse DNS, where genuine hostnames follow the pattern petalbot.*.aspiegel.com. (webmaster.petalsearch.com)
Huawei says PetalBot adjusts its crawl volume according to server capacity, website quality and website updates. (webmaster.petalsearch.com) Huawei says that after PetalBot stops visiting a site, clearing pages already in the Petal index may take several months. (webmaster.petalsearch.com) The Petal webmaster site offers a Verify PetalBot tool that checks whether a given IP address is a verified PetalBot address. (webmaster.petalsearch.com)
Products and plans
| Product | What it does | Price model | From | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PetalBot | Crawler for Petal Search, Huawei Assistant and AI Search. | |||
| Verify PetalBot | Lookup tool on the Petal webmaster site that checks an IP address. | |||
Standards
| Standard | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| RFC 9309 (robots.txt) | Supports | PetalBot complies with the robots protocol. (webmaster.petalsearch.com) |
| Web Bot Auth | No statement | Not on the PetalBot page (read 2026-11-05). |
| Published IP list | No statement | No range file published; an IP lookup tool instead (read 2026-11-05). |
| Reverse DNS check | Supports | Hostnames petalbot.*.aspiegel.com. (webmaster.petalsearch.com) |
Our checks
| Check | Result | Method | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homepage fetch | HTTP 200 | GET with the crawl user agent after a robots.txt check | 2026-11-05 |
What Huawei does not do
- Huawei publishes no PetalBot IP range file; checks run through reverse DNS or the webmaster site's lookup tool.
- Huawei's PetalBot page names no separate token for AI uses, and blocking PetalBot removes a site from Petal search.
Reading notes
Huawei's PetalBot page names aspiegel.com as the reverse DNS domain, while the PetalBot row in the Crawler Index, read on 4 November 2026, gave petalsearch.com. The vendor's own page is the primary source.
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Last reviewed 2026-11-05