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-range user-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"}

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