Bots by company
Baidu bots and crawlers
Baidu runs the largest search engine in China and the ERNIE language models.
Baidu bots at a glance
- Baidu runs 9 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Search Engine Crawlers, Ads and Platform Fetchers, AI Training Crawlers, AI Assistant Fetchers.
- Each Baidu bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.baidu.com
Every Baidu bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baiduspider | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| Baiduspider-ads | Ads and Platform Fetchers | AdsOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| Baiduspider-cpro | Ads and Platform Fetchers | AdsOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| Baiduspider-favo | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| Baiduspider-image | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| Baiduspider-news | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| Baiduspider-video | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| ERNIEBot | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingReported | Not documented | Your choice |
| YiyanBot | AI Assistant Fetchers | AI assistantReported | Not documented | Your choice |
Block or allow all Baidu bots
The rules below name every Baidu token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Baidu bots
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-ads
User-agent: Baiduspider-cpro
User-agent: Baiduspider-favo
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
User-agent: Baiduspider-news
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: ERNIEBot
User-agent: YiyanBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Baidu bots
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-ads
User-agent: Baiduspider-cpro
User-agent: Baiduspider-favo
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
User-agent: Baiduspider-news
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: ERNIEBot
User-agent: YiyanBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Baidu bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-ads
User-agent: Baiduspider-cpro
User-agent: Baiduspider-favo
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
User-agent: Baiduspider-news
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: ERNIEBot
User-agent: YiyanBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Baidu bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Baiduspider|Baiduspider\-ads|Baiduspider\-cpro|Baiduspider\-favo|Baiduspider\-image|Baiduspider\-news|Baiduspider\-video|ERNIEBot|YiyanBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Baidu bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Baiduspider|Baiduspider\-ads|Baiduspider\-cpro|Baiduspider\-favo|Baiduspider\-image|Baiduspider\-news|Baiduspider\-video|ERNIEBot|YiyanBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "Baiduspider") or (http.user_agent contains "Baiduspider-ads") or (http.user_agent contains "Baiduspider-cpro") or (http.user_agent contains "Baiduspider-favo") or (http.user_agent contains "Baiduspider-image") or (http.user_agent contains "Baiduspider-news") or (http.user_agent contains "Baiduspider-video") or (http.user_agent contains "ERNIEBot") or (http.user_agent contains "YiyanBot")See which of these bots actually reach your website
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