Bot intelligence record
Qwantbot-news
Usually allowUse the Qwantbot-news identifier to separate Qwant search indexing or content discovery traffic from normal visitor requests in server logs.
User-Agent Pattern
QwantQwantbot-news
Robots.txt Snippet
Copy-readyUser-agent: Qwantbot Disallow: /Handling Guidance
DependsThis bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.
Search indexing, content discovery, rendering, or search-result freshness checks.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- Qwant
- Family
- Qwant
- Type
- Search
- Purpose
- Search
- Identity type
- Official Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Last verified
- 2026-04-01
- Last checked
- 2026-04-30
- Source type
- Official
Notes
Qwantbot-news is listed in the Botcrawl directory as a search crawler from Qwant. The primary identifier for log review is Qwantbot-news.
Identification
- User-agent pattern:
Qwantbot-news - Family: Qwant
- Type: Search
- Kind: Crawler
Common use
Search indexing, content discovery, rendering, or search-result freshness checks.
Verification and handling
Official Qwant crawler documentation; reverse and forward DNS should resolve within qwant.com, or match the published qwantbot.json IP list.
Directory guidance marks the risk level as Safe and the blocking decision as Depends. Do not rely on the user-agent string alone because user-agent strings can be copied or spoofed.
Robots.txt handling: Yes.
Evidence and Source
- Official Qwant crawler documentation; reverse and forward DNS should resolve within qwant.com, or match the published qwantbot.json IP list.
- Search indexing, content discovery, rendering, or search-result freshness checks.
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