Overview
Baiduspider is operated by Baidu and is used for Crawling and indexing pages for Baidu Search.
Its documented identity is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html). The robots.txt token is Baiduspider.
It follows robots.txt rules addressed to Baiduspider.
Match the Baiduspider token and corroborate the source with Baidu-controlled documentation, network ownership, DNS evidence, and consistent search-crawler behavior.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Baiduspider - Aliases
- Baiduspider/2.0; Baidu spider
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html) - Robots Token
- Baiduspider
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the Baiduspider token and corroborate the source with Baidu-controlled documentation, network ownership, DNS evidence, and consistent search-crawler behavior.
Classification
- Type
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Baidu
- Purpose
- Search indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Crawling and indexing pages for Baidu Search.
- Detection Notes
- Use the main Baiduspider/2.0 identity for this record. Baiduspider-render is a separate rendering variant and should not be used as the representative identity for the primary crawler.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- The token is widely spoofed; do not trust it without network and behavior corroboration.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: Baiduspider Disallow: / - Apache Rule
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Baiduspider [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L] - Nginx Rule
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if ($http_user_agent ~* "Baiduspider") { return 403; }
Relationships
- Operator
- Baidu Checked 2026-08-06
- Owner / parent organization
- Baidu, Inc. Checked 2026-08-06
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.