Skip to main content

TongyiBot

recommended: observe
Operated by Alibaba ai assistant

TongyiBot is a web crawler operated by Alibaba that fetches web content for the Tongyi Qianwen assistant and related Qwen-generated answers.

What it does

TongyiBot fetches one page at a time, the moment someone asks a question it can answer, so it never crawls your site. How much you see depends on how many people use TongyiBot and how often they ask about what your site covers. A popular assistant can hit you steadily, while a single user or a niche one stays quiet between occasional spikes.

How to identify it

User-agent contains any of:

  • TongyiBot

robots.txt

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

Allow full access

User-agent: TongyiBot
Allow: /

Block entirely

User-agent: TongyiBot
Disallow: /

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

See TongyiBot on your own site

Botscope shows every bot and AI agent hitting your site — and lets you allow, challenge, or block each one. Observe first, enforce when you're ready.

Start free — connect in minutes