DuckDuckBot
DuckDuckGo · search. DuckDuckGo's traditional search crawler. The separate DuckAssistBot token serves its AI-assist features.
- name
- DuckDuckBot
- operator
- DuckDuckGo
- purpose
- search
- ua_substring
- DuckDuckBot
- robots_token
- DuckDuckBot
- respects_robots
- yes
- verify
- DuckDuckGo publishes DuckDuckBot IP addresses and documents the crawler; verify against the published list (see documentation_url). Companion to DuckAssistBot.
- notes
- DuckDuckGo's traditional search crawler. The separate DuckAssistBot token serves its AI-assist features.
- canonical_name
- DuckDuckBot
- user_agent_token
- DuckDuckBot
- ua_full
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/
- bot_type
- search-index
- bot_type_extension
- —
- opt_out_mechanism
- robots.txt disallow (User-agent: DuckDuckBot)
- published_ip_range_url
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/
- asn
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/
- reverse_dns_suffix
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/
- supports_web_bot_auth
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/
- signature_agent_domain
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/
- jwks_url
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/
- verification_methods
published-IP-rangeuser-agent-string- crawl_traffic_share
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
- targeted_content_type
- HTML, text
- documentation_url
- https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/
- first_seen_date
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/
- last_verified_date
- 2026-07-06
- block_vs_allow_recommendation
- conditional — feeds DuckDuckGo search (and, via DuckAssistBot, its AI assist); allow to be discoverable there.
- citation_referral_value
- medium (DuckDuckGo search results)
- cloudflare_verified_category
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
- status
- active
- triples
["DuckDuckBot","operated_by","DuckDuckGo"]["DuckDuckBot","has_bot_type","search-index"]["DuckDuckBot","verified_via","published-IP-range"]["DuckDuckBot","verified_via","user-agent-string"]- attribute_sources
{"claims":["user_agent_token","robots_token"],"source":"https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt","last_verified":"2026-07-06"}{"claims":["operator","purpose","documentation_url","respects_robots"],"source":"https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/","last_verified":"2026-07-06"}
last verified · by Özden Erdinc