Qwant · Indexing

Qwantbot

Identify Qwantbot by its user agent. Check request identity, review robots.txt controls and track visits in Aiola Analytics.

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Key facts

User-agent token: Qwantbot
Indexing: Crawled for AI or search indexing.
Qwant publishes official IP ranges; verify requests against them.

What Qwantbot is

Qwantbot builds and refreshes Qwant's search index and respects robots.txt. Qwant publishes a JSON IP range list and documents reverse DNS under qwant.com. Qwant also documents the Qwantbot-news user-agent variant for Qwant News, including a Qwantbot-news/2.0 example.

In Aiola's taxonomy, Indexing means crawled for ai or search indexing.

Qwantbot user agent

Look for the match token inside the complete HTTP User-Agent header. Tokens can be spoofed, so use the network checks below for authentication.

Full example User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot/1.0_12345; +https://help.qwant.com/bot/)
Case-insensitive match token
Qwantbot

Official IP ranges

Qwant publishes an official IP range list. This cached snapshot contains 1 CIDR prefixes, last fetched 2026-10-23. Open the live source

Official IP range snapshot
194.187.171.0/24

Verify a Qwantbot request

For Qwantbot, compare the source IP from your trusted edge or server against Qwant’s current published prefixes.

Test one CIDR in Python (replace REQUEST_IP)
python3 -c 'import ipaddress; print(ipaddress.ip_address("REQUEST_IP") in ipaddress.ip_network("194.187.171.0/24"))'

Test every current prefix in the vendor feed and re-fetch it regularly. This cached snapshot is evidence of publication, not a permanent firewall list.

Control Qwantbot with robots.txt

Qwant does not provide crawler documentation that Aiola could confidently verify for this token. The rules below express your preference, but vendor compliance is unconfirmed.

Allow Qwantbot
User-agent: Qwantbot
Allow: /
Block Qwantbot
User-agent: Qwantbot
Disallow: /

No official crawler documentation URL is listed because Aiola could not verify one confidently.

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