Qwantbot-news

Qwant · Search engines · json

User-agent: Qwantbot-news
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenQwantbot-news
User-agent containsQwantbot-news
OperatorQwant
CategorySearch engines
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify byno published verification method

What it is

The news variant of Qwant's crawler, documented alongside the main one and carrying the same Qwantbot substring.

What blocking it costs you

Your articles stop appearing in Qwant News. A rule for Qwantbot as a substring already catches both.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot-news/2.0; +https://help.qwant.com/bot/)

Allow it instead

User-agent: Qwantbot-news
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://help.qwant.com/bot/
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility