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title: "What is Qwen-User? Alibaba's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "User-triggered fetches when Alibaba's Qwen opens a page to answer a person."
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# Qwen-User

by Alibaba

AI answers AI UA only (unverifiable)

Fetches a page when a user asks an assistant to answer with fresh web context.

User-triggered fetches when Alibaba's Qwen opens a page to answer a person.

## What it usually means

A person asked an AI assistant a question, and the assistant fetched this URL to answer with fresh context or citations.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`qwen-user`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: Qwen-User`

Free tools

[Verify a Qwen-User request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=qwen-user) [Check if your site allows Qwen-User](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

[Alibaba's page for Qwen-User](https://help.aliyun.com/en/model-studio/web-search-agent-guide)

## Sources

-   [Alibaba crawler docs](https://help.aliyun.com/en/model-studio/web-search-agent-guide)

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](/bot-directory/tongyibot)[

QwenBot

Alibaba crawler collecting public content for its Qwen models.

](/bot-directory/qwenbot)

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