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PanguBot

Huawei, a training and dataset crawler

Operator
Huawei
Type
Model training and datasets
Sent as a user agent
Not confirmed
Follows robots.txt
Not confirmed
Details
Not yet checked against the operator's own documentation

What it does

Listed by many sites as a Huawei crawler. No official documentation was found.

We have not yet checked this page against Huawei's own documentation. Check it before you rely on it.

Block it in robots.txt

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

To allow it again, remove those lines or use Allow: /. Rules for other bots are not affected.

Block it on your server

robots.txt is a request. To enforce the block, filter the user agent on your server.

Nginx

map $http_user_agent $blocked_bot {
    default 0;
    ~*(PanguBot) 1;
}
# inside server { }
if ($blocked_bot) { return 403; }

Apache (.htaccess)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PanguBot [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]

Cloudflare custom rule (action: Block)

(lower(http.user_agent) contains "pangubot")

Source

No official documentation link has been confirmed yet.

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