What is Baiduspider?
Baiduspider is a search/index operated by Baidu. Use this crawler profile to identify user-agent tokens, operator signals, platform hints, and recommended handling.
Baiduspider
Baidu · Search/index
- Version
- 2.0
- First seen
- May 20, 2026
- Last seen
- May 25, 2026
- Confidence
- Known user-agent token
What is Baiduspider?
Baiduspider is a search/index operated by Baidu. Baiduspider is likely used by Baidu to discover, crawl, and index public web pages.
Baiduspider matched a known crawler token in the user-agent string, but this page alone does not prove IP ownership.
How to identify Baiduspider in logs
Search server logs for Baiduspider. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)
Use this as a web-crawler lookup reference for identifying how this user-agent presents itself in server logs.
User-agent signals
- Product tokens
- Mozilla/5.0, Baiduspider/2.0
- Documentation
- http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html
- Contact
- None found
- Platform
- Unknown · Unknown
- Browser profile
- Unknown · Unknown
- Browser-like UA
- Yes
- HTTP library
- Unknown
- Spoof risk
- Medium
Questions answered by this crawler profile
What is Baiduspider?
Baiduspider is likely used by Baidu to discover, crawl, and index public web pages.
Who operates Baiduspider?
Baiduspider is associated with Baidu.
How do I identify Baiduspider in logs?
Search server logs for Baiduspider. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Should I allow Baiduspider?
Verify IP ownership or behavior before making security decisions because user-agent strings can be spoofed. Allow it if you want this crawler to discover public pages, and use robots.txt or rate limits for policy control.
Does Baiduspider respect robots.txt?
Robots.txt compliance cannot be proven from a user-agent string alone. Check the crawler operator documentation and your own logs before assuming behavior.