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Qwant

Qwantbot

IndexingNo fetched rangesVerified July 2026

What it is

Search crawler for the French engine Qwant.

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

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; +https://help.qwant.com/bot/)
Case-insensitive match token
Qwantbot

Official IP ranges

Qwant has not published official IP ranges that Aiola successfully fetched for Qwantbot. Aiola does not list cloud-provider ranges or community guesses as if they authenticated this crawler.

Verify authenticity

Start with the source IP recorded by your trusted edge or server, not an untrusted forwarded header.

Reverse- and forward-DNS double lookup
host REQUEST_IP
# Confirm the hostname ends in an official suffix
host RETURNED_HOSTNAME
# The forward lookup must return REQUEST_IP

For production checks, test against every current prefix in the vendor feed. Re-fetch feeds regularly: a July 2026 snapshot is evidence of publication, not a permanent firewall list.

Control it 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.

Track it

Aiola tracks this crawler on your site — crawls, pages, trends. See when Qwantbot arrives, which URLs it requests, and how activity changes over time.

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FAQ

What is Qwantbot?

Search crawler for the French engine Qwant.

What user-agent token identifies Qwantbot?

Match the case-insensitive token “Qwantbot” in the User-Agent header. A matching header alone does not authenticate the sender.

Can I verify Qwantbot by IP address?

No official Qwantbot CIDR snapshot was successfully fetched for this verification date. Do not treat an arbitrary cloud IP as proof of identity.

Can robots.txt block Qwantbot?

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. Use the specific “Qwantbot” group when you want a rule for this identity without changing rules for every crawler.

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