Qwantify
Qwant search engine web crawler bot
About this crawler
Qwantify is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Qwantify in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Qwantify traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.20%
Technical details
- Name
- Qwantify
- Pattern
Qwantify- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://www.qwant.com/
- Added
- 2015/04/06
- rDNS suffixes
.qwant.com- Instances
- 4 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Qwantify 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; Qwantify/2.0n; +https://www.qwant.com/)/*
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantify/2.4w; +https://www.qwant.com/)/2.4w
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantify/Bleriot/1.1; +https://help.qwant.com/bot)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantify/Bleriot/1.2.1; +https://help.qwant.com/bot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Qwantify:
User-agent: Qwantify
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Qwantify [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Qwantify") {
return 403;
}
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