Quora-Bot user agent
Operated by Quora
Quora-Bot is the fetcher Quora uses for links shared in questions and answers.
The Quora-Bot bot at a glance
- Quora-Bot is operated by Quora and reads page titles, descriptions and images to build link previews.
- The robots.txt token for Quora-Bot is Quora-Bot.
- Blocking a social preview bot has no effect on search rankings.
- Quora-Bot robots.txt support: Not documented.
- Recommendation for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Allow.
What is Quora-Bot?
Quora-Bot reads linked pages to build previews on Quora.
Quora has not published a crawler page.
Should you block Quora-Bot?
Allow Quora-Bot unless it causes a measurable load problem.
| Effect on search rankings | Blocking a social preview bot has no effect on search rankings. |
|---|---|
| Effect on AI visibility | No direct effect on AI answers, but shared links lose their title, image and description, which usually lowers clicks from social and chat apps. |
| Follows robots.txt | Not documented |
| Recommendation | Allow |
How to block or allow Quora-Bot
Put the robots.txt rule in the file at the root of every domain and subdomain, for example https://example.com/robots.txt. The token Quora-Bot is matched case-insensitively. robots.txt alone may not stop Quora-Bot, so add the Nginx, Apache or Cloudflare rule as well.
robots.txt: block
# Block Quora-Bot
User-agent: Quora-Bot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow Quora-Bot
User-agent: Quora-Bot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep Quora-Bot out of private areas only
User-agent: Quora-Bot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to Quora-Bot
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Quora\-Bot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to Quora-Bot
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Quora\-Bot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "Quora-Bot")How to verify real Quora-Bot traffic
Quora publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for Quora-Bot, so the user agent cannot be verified. Anyone can send the same string. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
How to find Quora-Bot in your server logs
Search the web server access log for the token. The command below counts Quora-Bot requests per URL on Nginx or Apache.
grep -i "Quora-Bot" access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20For a full report per AI bot, upload the log to the AI Log File Analyzer, a free tool by Justin Hà.
Quora-Bot user agent string
The full user agent Quora publishes for Quora-Bot. Version numbers such as Chrome/W.X.Y.Z change over time, so match the token, not the whole string.
Quora-Bot/1.0 (http://www.quora.com)Quora-Bot FAQ
Quora-Bot identifies itself with the robots.txt token "Quora-Bot". A typical request header reads: Quora-Bot/1.0 (http://www.quora.com)
Quora has not documented how Quora-Bot treats robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule and back it with a server rule if the traffic matters to you.
Blocking a social preview bot has no effect on search rankings. No direct effect on AI answers, but shared links lose their title, image and description, which usually lowers clicks from social and chat apps.
Add two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of each domain and subdomain: "User-agent: Quora-Bot" followed by "Disallow: /". The token is case-insensitive. Changes can take up to 24 hours to be picked up.
Not reliably. Quora publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for Quora-Bot, so anyone can send the same user agent. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
Search your server access log for "Quora-Bot", for example with: grep -i "Quora-Bot" access.log. The AI Log File Analyzer by Justin Hà counts visits per AI bot from an uploaded log file.
Sources: Public bot registry. Last reviewed by Justin Hà.
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