Bots by company
Huawei bots and crawlers
Huawei runs Petal Search and the PanGu AI models.
Huawei bots at a glance
- Huawei runs 2 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Training Crawlers, Search Engine Crawlers.
- Each Huawei bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.huawei.com
Every Huawei bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PanguBot | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingReported | Not documented | Your choice |
| PetalBot | Search Engine Crawlers | AI searchSearch indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all Huawei bots
The rules below name every Huawei 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 Huawei bots
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Huawei bots
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PetalBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Huawei bots out of private areas only
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Huawei bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(PanguBot|PetalBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Huawei bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (PanguBot|PetalBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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