Qwantbot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTBased and designed in Europe, Qwant is the first search engine which protect privacy. Operated by Qwant.
What is Qwantbot?
Qwantbot is a web crawler operated by Qwant. Based and designed in Europe, Qwant is the first search engine which protect privacy. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.
Identification
QwantbotHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
Why it crawls your site
Qwantbot crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Qwant as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow Qwantbot
Add a Disallow rule for Qwantbot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block Qwantbot from crawling your entire site User-agent: Qwantbot Disallow: / # Allow Qwantbot full access User-agent: Qwantbot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Qwantbot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Qwant's documentation.
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