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QwenBot

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Operated by Alibaba ai scraper

QwenBot is a web crawler operated by Alibaba that downloads website content to support Qwen training and generated answers across Alibaba services.

What it does

QwenBot crawls websites to build AI training datasets, and its operator decides which sites, how often, and how deep it goes. Expect broad sweeps that fetch far more pages per visit than a search crawler would, on an unpredictable schedule. Volume can run heavy while a collection pass is underway, then stop entirely.

How to identify it

User-agent contains any of:

  • QwenBot

robots.txt

Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control QwenBot:

Allow full access

User-agent: QwenBot
Allow: /

Block entirely

User-agent: QwenBot
Disallow: /

Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless — see how →

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