qcbot
QUIC.cloud optimization service crawler
About this crawler
qcbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern qcbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block qcbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- qcbot
- Pattern
qcbot- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- https://docs.quic.cloud/services/qcbot/
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; qcbot/1.0; +http://quic.cloud/bot.html) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow qcbot:
User-agent: qcbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} qcbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "qcbot") {
return 403;
}
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