What is PanguBot?
PanguBot is a web crawler operated by the Chinese company Huawei. It's used to download training data for its multimodal LLM (Large Language Model) called PanGu. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when PanguBot visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Huawei |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | September 14, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
PanguBot tends to make broad, high-volume sweeps across many pages. Timing is unpredictable: traffic may remain heavy throughout a collection pass, then stop entirely.
PanguBot's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PanguBot/1.0; +https://www.huaweicloud.com/) |
How To Block PanguBot With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block PanguBot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI data scrapers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: PanguBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/pangubot
Disallow: /Insights for PanguBot
As of September 14, 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 Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
12% of top websites block PanguBot in their robots.txts.
Overall AI Data Scraper Traffic
2.8% of all web traffic came from AI data scrapers.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by PanguBot.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block PanguBot?
Block PanguBot if you want more control over whether your work is used for AI training. Allowing it may increase the chance that your brand appears in AI-generated answers, but either choice leaves traditional search rankings unchanged. For context, 12% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for PanguBot.
Does PanguBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. PanguBot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether PanguBot respects it.
Does PanguBot Access Private Content?
Not through legitimate access. PanguBot primarily targets public content, but some training-data scrapers also attempt to collect gated or paywalled pages. If content loads without authentication, assume it can be collected.
How Can I Tell if PanguBot Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks PanguBot visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "PanguBot". Look for high page counts, short gaps between requests, and deep traversal through linked content. Because PanguBot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
Why Is PanguBot Visiting My Website?
Your content matched the criteria Huawei set for a training dataset. PanguBot typically discovers pages through external links, sitemaps, and seed lists rather than because someone selected your site individually.