Search engines
Baiduspider
Baidu search engine's crawler that visits web pages to build the index used by Baidu Search; product-specific variants exist for images, video and news.
Dossier
- Operator
- Baidu
- Documentation
- help.baidu.com
- robots.txt token
BaiduspiderBaiduspider-imageBaiduspider-videoBaiduspider-news- Feeds
- search index
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes, per its documentationDocs: Baiduspider obeys robots and meta robots; Baiduspider-cpro and Baiduspider-ads do not (not indexing).
- How to verify
- Reverse DNShelp.baidu.com
- Names in our logs
baiduspider- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 37
- Days active
- 10 / 93
- First seen
- 23 Jul 2026
- Last seen
- 21 Oct 2026
Returningsearch_crawler
Identity check claimed vs verified
- No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- help.baidu.comhelp.baidu.com/question?prod_id=99&class=476&id=2996
- baidu.comwww.baidu.com/search/spider.html