QualifiedBot
QualifiedBot is blocked by 136 sites in the October 2026 survey, or 2.2% of readable files. The community reference lists its operator as Qualified.
Who runs QualifiedBot?
| Fact | QualifiedBot reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “Qualified” |
| Purpose | “AI Assistants” |
| Does QualifiedBot obey robots.txt? | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Frequency | “No explicit frequency provided.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for QualifiedBot | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
“QualifiedBot is Qualified's web crawler that analyzes customer websites to provide contextual information for their AI-powered chatbots and conversational marketing platf…”
The stated role here is an AI assistant. Search indexing is aimed at helping people find pages. Feeding text into model training is another use an owner may decline.
How many sites block it?
A User-agent line names it in 141 files, 2.3% of 6,171 readable files. Whole-site bans, written Disallow: /, total 136, or 2.2%. That leaves 6,035 without a recorded ban.
Tranco’s top 1,000 sites yielded 552 readable files, including 26 files with its name, or 4.7%, and 24 files blocking it. Blocking is more common among the leading sites, at 4.3%. Outside those ranks, 112 of 5,619 files block it, or 2.0%.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QualifiedBot, all ranks | 141 | 2.3% | 136 | 2.2% |
| QualifiedBot, top 1,000 | 26 | 4.7% | 24 | 4.3% |
| QualifiedBot, remaining ranks | 115 | 2.0% | 112 | 2.0% |
Only whole-site blocks recorded against this crawler’s name count here. Rules addressed to every crawler are outside this count. Of 136 blocks, 1 does not also appear in our count of files naming it. Names and bans overlap in 135 files. We also found 6 files with a name and no whole-site ban, plus 6,030 files omitting the name. Case changes and repeated spellings are merged.
How to block or allow it
Place the group in your root robots.txt file. Per the robots.txt standard, a named group for QualifiedBot overrides User-agent: *.
Block the whole site
User-agent: QualifiedBot
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: QualifiedBot
Allow: /It's the 51st most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
How we counted
For QualifiedBot, our 19 October 2026 collection used Tranco’s top 10,000 sites. An 8-second wait or a file over 262,144 bytes ended a read. Only available files we could read enter the percentages. The file readings, including repeats, use scripts/robots_2026_08_06.py (robots.py at app commit 07104ff). See the full survey method.
Common questions
What does naming this crawler tell me?
The 141 files naming it include 6 files without a whole-site ban.
Are leading sites different?
At the top of the ranking, 4.7% of readable files name it and 4.3% block it. Across all ranks, those shares are 2.3% and 2.2%.
How does the nearby crawler compare?
iaskspider is named by 138 files and blocked by 120, or 1.9%. For this crawler, 141 files name it and 136 block it, a 2.2% share.