Qwant search crawler — Qwantify
Qwant is a privacy-focused search engine based in France that operates its own crawler to index the web for European search results. Its crawler self-identifies with a Qwant token (historically Qwantify). It is a genuine search-engine indexer, so allowing it can help your pages appear in Qwant results.
What this means
Qwant is a France-based search engine that markets itself on privacy — it states it does not profile users for advertising. To return results it runs its own web crawler, and historically Qwant has also blended results from partner indexes. Allowing the crawler helps your pages appear in Qwant's European search results.
Qwant is a regional alternative to the dominant global engines, with most of its audience in France and neighbouring European markets, so it matters most for sites targeting those users.
How the Qwant crawler identifies itself
Qwant's crawler self-identifies with a Qwant token; the historically documented user-agent token is Qwantify, and the user-agent string includes a self-identifying Qwant URL. Because the exact token has shifted over time and is less exhaustively documented than Googlebot or Bingbot, this entry is marked partially verified — match on the Qwant/Qwantify token but corroborate with current Qwant documentation before treating the identity as authoritative.
As with any crawler, the user agent is a claim that can be copied; verify the source where authenticity matters.
- robots.txt token: Qwantify (Qwant's documented crawler token)
- User agent includes a self-identifying Qwant URL
- A genuine search-engine indexer for European (French-led) search
robots.txt considerations
Qwant's crawler is expected to honour robots.txt like other search engines. To disallow it site-wide you would target its token:
User-agent: Qwantify Disallow: /
Because Qwant is a search engine, blocking it removes your pages from Qwant's index — the opposite of what most sites want. robots.txt is a request honoured by compliant crawlers, not an access-control boundary.
How it appears in analytics and logs
A request carrying Qwant's crawler token is the Qwant search engine fetching a URL for its index — a bot event, not a human visit. Because Qwant is a search-engine indexer, blocking it can remove your pages from Qwant results.
Diagnostic use case
Confirm Qwant's crawler is indexing your site, keep it allowed for European search visibility, and identify its requests separately from SEO tool crawlers.
What WebmasterID can help detect
WebmasterID classifies Qwant's crawler server-side as a search bot and shows its activity on the bot-intelligence surface, separate from human analytics, so you can see European search-engine crawl coverage without log parsing.
Common mistakes
- Blocking Qwant's crawler and unintentionally dropping out of European (French) search results.
- Confusing the Qwant search crawler with an SEO tool crawler.
- Assuming a fixed Qwant token without checking current documentation.
Privacy and accuracy notes
Qwant crawler detection uses only the request user-agent. No human identity is involved. WebmasterID records the crawl as a bot event, separate from human analytics, and never attaches it to a visitor profile.
Related pages
- Regional search engines overview
In several markets a regional search engine leads instead of Google: Yandex in Russian-language search, Baidu in China, Naver in South Korea, Seznam in the Czech Republic, and Coc Coc in Vietnam. Recognising their crawlers matters because being indexed by them is how you reach those audiences.
- SeznamBot — Seznam's web crawler
SeznamBot is the crawler for Seznam.cz, a long-established Czech search engine and web portal. It uses the SeznamBot robots.txt token. Some details are documented primarily in Czech, so this entry is marked partially verified pending confirmation in Seznam's own documentation.
- Mail.ru search crawler — Mail.RU_Bot
Mail.ru is a major Russian internet portal and search provider, and it operates its own crawler to index the web for its search results. The crawler self-identifies with a Mail.RU_Bot token. It is a genuine regional search-engine indexer, so allowing it can help your pages appear in Mail.ru search.
- Web crawlers overview
How WebmasterID separates regional search bots from SEO and AI crawlers.
Sources and verification notes
- Qwant — about / helpQwant operates its own crawler; the Qwantify token is documented historically. Exact current token verify before relying on it.
Last reviewed 2026-06-24. Facts are checked against primary/official sources where available; uncertain specifics are marked “Data not yet verified” rather than guessed.