Qwantbot
Qwant privacy-focused search crawler
About this crawler
Qwantbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Qwantbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Qwantbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Qwantbot
- Pattern
Qwantbot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://help.qwant.com/
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- rDNS suffixes
.qwant.com- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Qwantbot with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.qwant.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot/1.0_800166; +https://help.qwant.com/bot/)
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/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Qwantbot:
User-agent: Qwantbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Qwantbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Qwantbot") {
return 403;
}
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