Qwantbot
Qwant's search engine.
- Operator
- Qwant
- Type
- Search engine
- In the user agent
Qwantbot- robots.txt token
Qwantbot- Follows robots.txt
- says it follows robots.txt
- Official documentation
- help.qwant.com
- Checked on
- 2026-11-11
What is Qwantbot?
Qwantbot is Qwant's search engine. It indexes pages for a search engine, whose results also feed AI answers.
The operator's description: Crawls for the Qwant search index.
(help.qwant.com)
How do I block or allow Qwantbot?
With robots.txt, using the token Qwantbot. Qwant says it follows robots.txt. To block the whole site:
User-agent: Qwantbot
Disallow: /To allow it, use Allow instead of Disallow. Before blocking, weigh what it brings: without it, the assistant cannot find your pages to cite or recommend them.
How do I see whether Qwantbot visits my site?
In your server or CDN access logs, look for Qwantbot in the user agent. Google Analytics does not show these visits: agents do not run its JavaScript.
Anyone can copy the name in a user agent, so counting log lines is not enough. Knocklog reads your site's traffic on any host, confirms who is who, and shows how often Qwantbot came, which pages it read and what that brought you.
How do I know it is really Qwantbot?
The IP's reverse DNS, confirmed forward and back, must end in .qwant.com.
Knocklog runs this check on every visit and separates the genuine agent from impostors.
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