About this bot
AspiegelBot is a legacy crawler identity associated with Huawei/Aspiegel and the Petal search-crawler lineage.
The token remains useful for historical log recognition, but current first-party authentication for the retired identity is insufficient. Contemporary Petal traffic should be evaluated under the PetalBot record.
Directory status: Legacy. Identity classification: Unverified with Medium confidence.
robots.txt behavior is currently unconfirmed.
Risk classification: Neutral.
How to identify this bot
- Also known as
- aspiegelbot; Aspiegel Bot; Petal Search crawler
Details
- Kind
- Legacy search identity
- Family
- PetalBot
- Purpose
- Search indexing
- Common Use
- Historical search-engine crawling associated with Huawei/Aspiegel and the later Petal Search crawler family.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- historical-observed
- Evidence Method
- Match the historical `AspiegelBot` token for legacy classification. Current evidence links it to the PetalBot family but does not provide a current first-party authentication method for this retired identity.
- Detection Notes
- Treat `AspiegelBot` as an older Petal/Huawei crawler identity. Prefer the separately documented current PetalBot identity for contemporary traffic.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: AspiegelBot Disallow: /