# DuckDuckBot

> 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.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | DuckDuckGo |
| category | Search engines |
| robots.txt token | `DuckDuckBot` |
| user-agent contains | `DuckDuckBot` |
| robots.txt | obeys robots.txt (documented) |
| verify by | published IP ranges |
| published IP ranges | https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.json |
| prefixes mirrored | 481 IPv4 / 0 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/ |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## 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)
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
```

JSON: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/duckduckbot.json · index: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/llms.txt