DuckDuckBot

DuckDuckGo · Search engines · json

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Disallow: /


robots.txt token	`DuckDuckBot`
User-agent contains	`DuckDuckBot`
Operator	DuckDuckGo
Category	Search engines
robots.txt	obeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify by	published IP ranges
Published ranges	481 IPv4 + 0 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

DuckDuckGo's own crawler. Note that the bulk of DuckDuckGo's web results come from Bing, so blocking bingbot removes you from DuckDuckGo whether or not you allow this one.

What blocking it costs you

Limited on its own; the real DuckDuckGo lever is bingbot.

Full user-agent string

DuckDuckBot/1.1; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html)

Allow it instead

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility