Verified Bots Directory

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Qwantbot

Fully verifiable

Qwant's web crawler, fetching pages to build and refresh the index that powers the privacy-focused Qwant search engine. Qwant runs it under two documented forms — the plain crawler and a Qwantbot-news variant dedicated to Qwant News — and the user agent carries a worker id identifying the machine that made the request. Older crawls identify as Qwantify.

Operated by Qwant · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexQwantify/\d
  • regexQwantbot/\d
  • regexQwantbot-news/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantify/2.4w; +https://www.qwant.com/)/2.4w
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot/1.0_12345; +https://help.qwant.com/bot/)
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantbot-news/2.0; +https://help.qwant.com/bot/)

How to verify

Fetch the official IP range feed

curl -s https://help.qwant.com/hc/article_attachments/51147492481937

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

dig -x <client-ip> +short   # expect a hostname matching *.qwant.com

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.qwant.com

IP ranges (1)

Refreshed daily from the operator's feed. Also available as /data/ips/qwantbot.ips and /data/bots/qwantbot.json.

194.187.171.0/24

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (3 patterns)

  • Verifiable

    Fully verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: Qwantbot)

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.