PetalBot

Verifiable

Huawei's web crawler, fetching pages for the Petal Search engine used in Huawei's mobile services and for Huawei Assistant content recommendations. Huawei documents reverse-DNS verification against aspiegel.com and petalsearch.com hostnames.

Operated by Huawei · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

regexPetalBot
observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible;PetalBot;+https://webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot)
observedMozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0;) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; PetalBot;+https://webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot)

How to verify

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

dig -x <client-ip> +short   # expect a hostname matching *.petalsearch.com

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.petalsearch.com, *.aspiegel.com

Good Bot Practices scorecard

Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
Verifiable
Verifiable
Respects robots.txt
Honors robots.txt (token: PetalBot)
Behaves
Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset
Reachable operator
Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.