What is 360Spider?
360Spider is a search engine crawler operated by Qihoo 360. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when 360Spider visits your website.
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| Example User Agent | User-Agent:Mozilla/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 |
| Operated By | Qihoo 360 |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Possibly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is 360Spider Visiting My Website?
360Spider is adding new or changed pages to its search index. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or direct submission.
Should I Block 360Spider?
No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. 360Spider supplies its index, so blocking it can eliminate your visibility and organic traffic there. Nearly every website should allow this category. For context, 6% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for 360Spider.
How Do I Block 360Spider Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block 360Spider from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all search engine crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: 360Spider # https://knownagents.com/agents/360spider
Disallow: /Insights for 360Spider
As of October 30, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Compliance
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Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From 360Spider?
360Spider follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl rules more reliably than most other bots.
Does 360Spider Follow Robots.txt Rules?
360Spider is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether 360Spider respects it.
Is 360Spider Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. 360Spider is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking 360Spider Affect AI Search or Citations?
Blocking 360Spider can remove your pages from the search engine it supplies. That may also affect AI products that rely on the same index, but it does not directly control unrelated AI search services.
Does 360Spider Access Private Content?
No special access. 360Spider can reach only content available to anonymous visitors and does not sign in. Make sure sensitive content is not public by mistake.
How Can I Verify a Request From 360Spider?
Agent Analytics tracks 360Spider visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "360Spider". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because 360Spider does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
How Is 360Spider Different From Other Qihoo 360 Agents?
Qihoo 360 operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
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