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# Qwantbot

> Qwantbot is a search engine crawler run by Qwant. Qwant's web crawlers, used to build and improve the Qwant search index.

- Operator: Qwant
- Kind: Search engine crawler
- robots.txt token: none documented
- Follows robots.txt: yes
- Source: https://help.qwant.com/bot/ (checked 2026-11-05)
- Page: https://invisit.dev/bots/qwant

## What is Qwantbot?

Qwant's web crawlers, used to build and improve the Qwant search index.

Crawls pages for a classic search index. Blocking it removes you from that search engine.

Qwant says its crawler respects robots.txt and that Qwantbot always appears in its user agents, but it names no robots.txt token. It prefers reverse DNS over the IP list.

- [Qwant’s documentation](https://help.qwant.com/bot/)

## Qwantbot user agent

Qwant documents these user agents for Qwantbot. Version numbers in it change over time, so match on the name, not the whole string.

```
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot/1.0_12345; +https://help.qwant.com/bot/)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot-news/2.0;  +https://help.qwant.com/bot/)
```

## Should you block Qwantbot?

Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.

## How to block Qwantbot in robots.txt

Qwant documents no robots.txt token for Qwantbot that we could confirm, so we don’t suggest one here. Block it at your server or firewall by user agent instead.

- [Build a robots.txt for AI bots](https://invisit.dev/tools/robots-txt-generator)

## How to verify a request is really Qwantbot

Anyone can send any user agent, so the string alone proves nothing.

Qwant publishes the IP ranges Qwantbot crawls from. A request that claims to be Qwantbot from any other address is not Qwantbot.

Or check by reverse DNS: look up the hostname of the request’s IP, confirm it ends in `qwant.com`, then look that hostname up again and confirm it points back to the same IP.

- [Qwantbot IP ranges](https://help.qwant.com/qwantbot.json)

## See when Qwantbot reads your site

Bots don’t run JavaScript analytics, so a script tag never sees them. invisit records crawler reads on the server instead, through its server SDK or a Cloudflare Worker, and shows which bots read which pages, next to your visitors.

- [Track crawlers with invisit](https://invisit.dev/docs/server/sdk#crawler-reads)

## Common questions

### What is Qwantbot?

Qwantbot is a search engine crawler run by Qwant. Qwant's web crawlers, used to build and improve the Qwant search index.

### Is Qwantbot safe to block?

Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.

### How do I block Qwantbot?

Qwant documents no robots.txt token for it that we could confirm, so block it at your server or firewall by its user agent.