DuckDuckGo · AI answers
DuckAssistBot
Fetches pages in real time for the AI-assisted answers in DuckDuckGo Search, which cite their sources. DuckDuckGo says the data is not used to train AI models, and blocking it does not affect your search ranking.
- robots.txt name
DuckAssistBot- User agent
DuckAssistBot/1.2; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.html)- Category
- AI answers: Fetch a page when someone asks an assistant about it.
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckassistbot
- Published IP ranges
- https://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.json
Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.
Block or allow it in robots.txt
Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere except one folder:
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /private/Is it really this bot?
Anyone can copy a user agent. To be sure a request comes from DuckDuckGo, compare its IP address with the ranges the company publishes.
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