Bots by company
Alibaba bots and crawlers
Alibaba builds the Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) models and assistant.
Alibaba bots at a glance
- Alibaba runs 3 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Training Crawlers, AI Assistant Fetchers, Search Engine Crawlers.
- Each Alibaba bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.alibabagroup.com
Every Alibaba bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QwenBot | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingReported | Not documented | Your choice |
| TongyiBot | AI Assistant Fetchers | AI assistantReported | Not documented | Your choice |
| YisouSpider | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Alibaba bots
The rules below name every Alibaba token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Alibaba bots
User-agent: QwenBot
User-agent: TongyiBot
User-agent: YisouSpider
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Alibaba bots
User-agent: QwenBot
User-agent: TongyiBot
User-agent: YisouSpider
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Alibaba bots out of private areas only
User-agent: QwenBot
User-agent: TongyiBot
User-agent: YisouSpider
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Alibaba bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(QwenBot|TongyiBot|YisouSpider)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Alibaba bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (QwenBot|TongyiBot|YisouSpider) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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