Bot signals · AI crawler & agent
What is QATechBot?
QA.tech QATechBot
QATechBot is the automated browser QA.tech uses when its customers run AI-powered functional and regression tests against their own web applications. QA.tech says it only visits the sites and environments a customer has configured, and does not crawl, index or scrape the public web.
01 · Profile
QATechBot at a glance.
What to look for in your logs, and what the lookup API returns for its addresses.
- Type
- AI crawler & agent
- User agent
QATechBot- robots.txt
User-agent: QATechBot- API flag
risk.is_ai
A user agent alone never sets a flag. Anyone can claim to be QATechBot; the flag follows the address the request comes from.
02 · In the response
What a match looks like.
A lookup of a QATechBot address sets risk.is_ai. The flags come with geolocation and network data in the same response, for API keys on every paid plan.
The response says which kind of bot an address belongs to, not which operator. A request that claims to be QATechBot while risk.is_ai is false should not be trusted as QATechBot.
{
// … location and network fields …
"risk": {
"is_ai": true,
"is_crawler": false,
"is_scanner": false
}
}
03 · Control
Allow or block QATechBot.
User-agent: QATechBot Disallow: /
To enforce it
- robots.txt is a request. Well-behaved bots follow it; impostors using its name don’t.
- Firewall, WAF or CDN. Many offer bot rules you can allow or deny by category. Use them to enforce what robots.txt only asks for.
- In your app. Look up the client address and allow or deny on
risk.is_ai, alongside the user agent. - Never on the user agent alone. Blocking the name stops only honest clients; allowing it lets anyone in who borrows it.
04 · Questions
About QATechBot.
What is QATechBot?
QATechBot is the automated browser QA.tech uses when its customers run AI-powered functional and regression tests against their own web applications. QA.tech says it only visits the sites and environments a customer has configured, and does not crawl, index or scrape the public web.
How do I block QATechBot?
Add a robots.txt rule for QATechBot. QA.tech says that where it checks robots.txt, QATechBot respects normal robots rules for the URLs its customer has configured. To enforce a block rather than request one, deny it at your firewall, WAF or CDN.
Can I trust a request that says it is QATechBot?
Not on the user agent alone: any client can send “QATechBot” in its user agent. A user agent alone never sets a flag. Check the address with the free bot checker or the lookup API.
Which risk flag does QATechBot set?
Its addresses set risk.is_ai in the lookup response. The risk flags come with every paid plan.
Related bots
Recognise QATechBot on every request.
is_ai, is_crawler and is_scanner in every lookup, on every paid plan, from 9,00 € a month (VAT included).