What is Qwarrybot?

Qwarrybot is a web crawler operated by Qwarry, a French advertising technology company that provides contextual targeting and audience analysis services for programmatic advertising campaigns. The bot analyzes web content to understand page topics and audiences for cookieless ad targeting across multiple channels. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.

Overview

Operated By Qwarry
Source Official Website
Expected To Follow Robots.txt Yes
Insights Last Updated August 11, 2026

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Category

Intelligence Gatherer
Analyzes web content for brand safety, competitive insights, and ad targeting

Expected Behavior

Qwarrybot usually returns to a small set of pages rather than crawling an entire site. Visits may follow an hourly, daily, or weekly schedule, while websites its clients do not monitor may never encounter it.

Qwarrybot's User Agent

User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Qwarrybot/2.0; +http://www.qwarry.com/bot.html)

How To Block Qwarrybot With Robots.txt

Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Qwarrybot from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all intelligence gatherers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.

User-agent: Qwarrybot # https://knownagents.com/agents/qwarrybot
Disallow: /

Global Statistics for Qwarrybot

As of August 11, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.

Robots.txt Blocked Percentage

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Qwarrybot
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Country of Origin

France
Qwarrybot normally visits From France

Robots.txt Blocking Trend

0% of top websites block Qwarrybot in their robots.txt files.

Overall Intelligence Gatherer Traffic

3.5% of all web traffic came from intelligence gatherers.

Frequently Asked Questions

Should I Block Qwarrybot?

If you run ads, confirm Qwarrybot's purpose before blocking it. Some intelligence gatherers measure ad placements or evaluate pages for brand safety, and blocking those agents can interfere with advertising systems. If this one serves a different purpose, weigh any research visibility against sharing business or page-level data with third parties. Almost none of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Qwarrybot.


Does Qwarrybot Follow Robots.txt Rules?

Yes. Qwarrybot is expected to follow robots.txt directives, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Qwarrybot respects it.


Does Qwarrybot Access Private Content?

No special access. Qwarrybot can read publicly available pages but cannot bypass authentication. Assume anything you publish openly may be collected.


Why Is Qwarrybot Visiting My Website?

A client of Qwarry may be gathering competitive intelligence, measuring advertisements, or evaluating content for brand safety. The pages requested reflect that client's objective.


How Can I Tell if Qwarrybot Is Visiting My Website?

Agent Analytics tracks Qwarrybot visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Qwarrybot". Look for repeated requests to the same small group of commercial or ad-supported pages. Because Qwarrybot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.