ERNIEBot
recommended: observeERNIEBot is a web crawler operated by Baidu that downloads website content to support ERNIE training and generated answers across Baidu services.
What it does
ERNIEBot crawls websites to build AI training datasets, and its operator decides which sites, how often, and how deep it goes. Expect broad sweeps that fetch far more pages per visit than a search crawler would, on an unpredictable schedule. Volume can run heavy while a collection pass is underway, then stop entirely.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
ERNIEBot
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control ERNIEBot:
Allow full access
User-agent: ERNIEBot
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: ERNIEBot
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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