🤖 Overview

The qeavis agent is a web crawler operated by the German company Qeavis GmbH (based in Munich), primarily used to index e‑commerce product data, pricing, and availability for their price comparison and market analytics platform. According to official Qeavis documentation and their robots.txt guidance, the agent systematically collects publicly available product information from online retailers to feed into their real‑time price monitoring and competitive intelligence tools.

🌐 Technical Behavior

The qeavis agent performs headless HTTP requests using a custom crawling framework that mimics standard browser behavior but without rendering JavaScript by default. It respects the robots.txt crawl‑delay directive and typically issues requests at intervals of 10–30 seconds per host, though it may temporarily increase frequency during deep re‑indexing cycles. The bot connects from IP addresses belonging to the ASN AS206264 (Qeavis GmbH) and occasionally from residential IP proxies when accessing georestricted content. It uses HTTP/1.1 and HTTPS, sending a Referer header set to its own service domain. The crawler does not follow redirect chains beyond three hops and stops after encountering repeated 403 or 429 responses.

📋 robots.txt Compliance

Qeavis explicitly states on its developer portal that the qeavis agent fully obeys robots.txt directives, including Disallow, Crawl‑delay, and Allow rules. Publicly recorded tests confirm the bot stops crawling any path blocked by the standard /robots.txt file within 24 hours of a rule change. There are no known documented violations of robots.txt by this agent.

🔍 Detection Indicators

The primary User‑Agent string is qeavis agent (compatible; Qeavis GmbH; +https://www.qeavis.de/bot). Additionally, the agent sends an X‑Qeavis‑Agent header set to v1.0 for verification purposes. Behavioral fingerprints include a request pattern of exactly three concurrent connections per host and a default Accept‑Language: de‑DE,en;q=0.9 header. No Accept‑Encoding header is sent, revealing the bot’s preference for raw text.

📊 Data Usage

Collected data — including product names, prices, stock status, and category trees — is used to populate the Qeavis price comparison engine and to generate daily market reports for subscribed merchants. According to Qeavis’s privacy policy, no personal user data is stored beyond the product‑level information visible to the public. The aggregated data feeds into their API for real‑time competitive analytics.

⚙️ Rate Limiting Policy

While the qeavis agent is legitimate and compliant, its sustained crawling at 30‑second intervals can strain smaller e‑commerce sites, making rate limiting advisable. A threshold of 100 requests per minute per IP and 500 requests per hour per host is recommended to prevent load without blocking the bot entirely, preserving its useful data‑gathering function.

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