Qwantbot

Qwant · Search engines · json

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

What it is

Qwant's crawler. Qwant documents that the string Qwantbot always appears in its user-agents whatever the crawler version, which is what makes a substring match safe here.

What blocking it costs you

You leave the index behind Qwant, the French privacy-focused engine, and the products that federate it.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot/1.0_12345; +https://help.qwant.com/bot/)

Allow it instead

User-agent: Qwantbot
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