Agent directory · AI training crawler
ERNIEBot
Baidu's crawler, linked to its ERNIE AI models.
- Run by
- Baidu
- Type
- AI training crawler
- Robots.txt name
ERNIEBot- Verifiable
- Not yet
What ERNIEBot does
Baidu's crawler, linked to its ERNIE AI models.
As an AI training crawler, it collects public pages that may be used to train AI models. The kinds of AI agent that visit websites.
Should you allow it?
A real business choice. Lean towards blocking if your content is the product (publishing, research, courses); lean towards allowing if your pages exist to sell something else. A decision guide for blocking or allowing AI crawlers.
How to allow or block ERNIEBot
ERNIEBot reads the ERNIEBot group in your robots.txt. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: ERNIEBot
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere, even if another rule blocks other bots:
User-agent: ERNIEBot
Allow: /Robots.txt is a request, not a lock: well-behaved crawlers follow it, impostors don't. Robots.txt for AI agents.
How to tell if it's really ERNIEBot
Our registry doesn't verify ERNIEBot against published IP ranges yet, so treat a request that uses the name as a claim, not proof: anyone can send its user agent. Check Baidu's documentation for how to verify it.
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