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Qwant bots and crawlers
Qwant runs a European search engine based in France.
Qwant bots at a glance
- Qwant runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Search Engine Crawlers.
- Each Qwant bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.qwant.com
Every Qwant bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwantbot | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all Qwant bots
The rules below name every Qwant 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 Qwant bots
User-agent: Qwantbot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Qwant bots
User-agent: Qwantbot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Qwant bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Qwantbot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Qwant bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Qwantbot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Qwant bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Qwantbot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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