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  "id": "qwantbot",
  "name": "Qwantbot",
  "operator": {
    "name": "Qwant",
    "url": "https://www.qwant.com"
  },
  "description": "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.",
  "docs": [
    "https://help.qwant.com/hc/en-us/articles/51146433634833-The-Qwant-bot-QwantBot-and-the-robots-txt-file",
    "https://help.qwant.com/bot/"
  ],
  "category": "search-engine",
  "user_agents": {
    "patterns": [
      "Qwantify/\\d",
      "Qwantbot/\\d",
      "Qwantbot-news/\\d"
    ],
    "instances": [
      "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwantify/2.4w; +https://www.qwant.com/)/2.4w",
      "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/)"
    ]
  },
  "behavior": {
    "respects_robots_txt": true,
    "robots_token": "Qwantbot"
  },
  "verification": [
    {
      "type": "cidr_feed",
      "url": "https://help.qwant.com/hc/article_attachments/51147492481937",
      "format": "prefixes"
    },
    {
      "type": "rdns",
      "masks": [
        "*.qwant.com"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tier": 1,
  "tier_label": "Fully verifiable",
  "first_seen": "2026-07-08T19:13:49.571Z",
  "resolved_cidrs": [
    "194.187.171.0/24"
  ]
}