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Qwantbot-official — What It Is and How to Handle It

Qwantbot-official is the web crawler for Qwant, a European search engine that indexes web pages to include them in search results. This bot visits websites to discover and collect content for Qwant's search index.

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Centinel Analytica · April 10, 2026

Qwantbot-official is the web crawler for Qwant, a European search engine that indexes web pages to include them in search results. This bot visits websites to discover and collect content for Qwant's search index.

Operator: Qwant | Type: Search Engine | Category: Search Engine

Qwantbot-official is classified as search engine. Use Centinel to monitor its behavior and decide whether to allow, block, challenge, or monetize its access to your content.

Centinel automatically detects Qwantbot-official using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.

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