01 · Operator
Who operates HaosouSpider
- Company
- 360 Search (so.com)
- Official docs
- so.com
02 · Behavior
What HaosouSpider does
It crawls web pages for the 360 Search index. 360 Search documents the tokens 360Spider, 360Spider-Image and 360Spider-Video. It supports user-agent, Allow and Disallow in robots.txt.
03 · Impact
Why HaosouSpider matters for your site
If you allow it
- Visibility in 360 Search, a Chinese search engine
- Useful if you target users in China
If you block it
- Little traffic for sites outside China
- Saves crawl load
04 · Allow
How to allow HaosouSpider
robots.txt
User-agent: 360Spider
Allow: /Cloudflare
# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "360Spider")
Action: Skip › All Super Bot Fight Mode rules
# Also check Security › Bots: "Block AI bots" can block it regardless of robots.txt.WordPress
# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: 360Spider
Allow: /nginx
# nginx serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure no rule like this blocks it:
# if ($http_user_agent ~* "360Spider") { return 403; }Apache
# Apache serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure .htaccess has no rule like this:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} 360Spider [NC]
# RewriteRule .* - [F,L]05 · Block
How to block HaosouSpider
HaosouSpider follows robots.txt, so one rule is enough. Use a server or CDN rule only to stop spoofed copies.
robots.txt
User-agent: 360Spider
Disallow: /Cloudflare
# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "360Spider")
Action: BlockWordPress
# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: 360Spider
Disallow: /nginx
# In your server { } block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "360Spider") {
return 403;
}Apache
# .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} 360Spider [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>06 · User agents
User agents we see for HaosouSpider
The user agent published by the operator:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1; 360Spider(compatible; HaosouSpider; http://www.haosou.com/help/help_3_2.html)07 · Verification
Is it really HaosouSpider?
HaosouSpider’s operator publishes no IP ranges or hostnames, so requests cannot be verified. Treat the user agent as a claim, and watch your logs for unusual request rates.
FAQ
Questions about HaosouSpider
What is HaosouSpider?
It is a user agent of 360Spider, the crawler of 360 Search. The name refers to haosou.com.
How do I block HaosouSpider?
Use user-agent: 360Spider in robots.txt. 360 Search documents support for Allow and Disallow rules.
Last reviewed Oct 8, 2026