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Qwantbot

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Based and designed in Europe, Qwant is the first search engine which protect privacy. Operated by Qwant.

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Assessment
Search Engine Crawler
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

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.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name
Qwantbot
Operator
Qwant
Category
Search Engine Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
qwantbot
User-agent patterns
Qwantbot
User-agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot/2.4w; +https://www.qwant.com/)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot-junior/1.0; +https://www.qwant.com/)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot-news/2.0; +https://www.qwant.com/)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot-official/1.0; +https://www.qwant.com/)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot-wikidata/1.0; +https://www.qwant.com/)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot-opt/1.0; [email protected])
Main use cases
Web page indexingSearch result rankingContent discoverySitemap processing

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

Block it

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: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Qwantbot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Qwant's documentation.

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

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Last updated July 21, 2026