Overview
QualifiedBot is a search crawler from Qualified.com, Inc. used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is QualifiedBot; related patterns include Qualified crawler; a representative HTTP user-agent is QualifiedBot/1.0 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; QualifiedBot/1.0; +https://www.qualified.com/legal/qualified-crawler-user-agent).
QualifiedBot is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
QualifiedBot is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
QualifiedBot should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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QualifiedBot - Aliases
- Qualified crawler
- HTTP Agent Examples
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QualifiedBot/1.0 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; QualifiedBot/1.0; +https://www.qualified.com/legal/qualified-crawler-user-agent) - Robots Token
- QualifiedBot
- Identity Type
- Verified bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify QualifiedBot by matching `QualifiedBot` to Qualified.com, Inc. evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Qualified.com, Inc.
- Purpose
- Indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- QualifiedBot is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Detection Notes
- QualifiedBot traffic is primarily detected by the `QualifiedBot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Qualified crawler`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `QualifiedBot/1.0 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; QualifiedBot/1.0; +https://www.qualified.com/legal/qualified-crawler-user-agent)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Qualified.com, Inc. infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- QualifiedBot has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.
Relationships
- Operator
- Qualified.com, Inc. Checked 2026-06-23
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.