About this bot
360Spider is the web-search crawler used by 360 Search / Qihoo 360 to discover and index public web content.
The current documented browser-style request identity ends with 360Spider. 360 Search also publishes source prefixes for crawler verification and states that reverse-DNS/nslookup is not the supported verification method.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
360 Search documents robots.txt support for the 360Spider web-search token, including Allow and Disallow directives.
Risk classification: Neutral. For trust decisions, combine the User-Agent signature with the currently published 360 Search crawler source ranges.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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360SpiderMozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/140.0.0.0; 360Spider
Details
- Kind
- Search crawler
- Family
- Qihoo 360
- Purpose
- Search indexing
- Common Use
- discovering and indexing public web content for 360 Search
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the `360Spider` signature and corroborate the source against 360 Search’s current published crawler prefixes. 360 Search states that nslookup/reverse-DNS is not the supported verification method for this crawler.
- Detection Notes
- Current 360 Search crawler requests use a browser-style User-Agent ending in `360Spider`. Published source prefixes provide stronger origin corroboration than the header alone.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: 360Spider Disallow: /