Qwen-User
Alibaba · AI answers · User agent only
About this crawler
Reported as the user-triggered fetcher behind Qwen answers.
Usually means: Someone asked an AI assistant a question and it read this page to answer, often with a link back.
The operator doesn't document this user agent, so treat it as a claim: anyone can send it.
User agent
Qwen-User
MetricRaven matches this token anywhere in the request's user agent, ignoring case. Operators add version numbers and browser text around it, for example "Qwen-User/1.0".
IP verification
Alibaba publishes no IP ranges for Qwen-User, so requests are identified by user agent only and recorded as unverified. Anyone can send this user agent.
Control it in robots.txt
User-agent: Qwen-User Disallow: /private/
Fetchers that act for a person may not follow robots.txt; block them at your server or firewall if you need to.
Questions
- What is Qwen-User?
- Reported as the user-triggered fetcher behind Qwen answers. MetricRaven groups it under AI answers: assistants opening a page because a person asked about it.
- How do I verify that a request really comes from Qwen-User?
- Alibaba publishes no IP ranges for Qwen-User, so only the user agent identifies it. Anyone can send that string, so treat it as a claim.
- How do I block or allow Qwen-User?
- Add a robots.txt group for "Qwen-User" with the paths to allow or disallow. Fetchers that act for a user may ignore robots.txt; block those at your server or firewall instead.
- How can I see when Qwen-User visits my website?
- Most crawlers never run JavaScript, so browser analytics miss them. MetricRaven's @metricraven/ai-crawl package reports crawler requests from your server, verifies their IPs against published ranges, and shows which pages each crawler reads.
See when AI assistants and crawlers read your site
Add one line to your server and MetricRaven shows which assistants, search engines and training crawlers request your pages, which ones are IP-verified, and the URLs they expected to find, including 404s.