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DuckDuckBot

DuckDuckGo's web crawler, used to improve its search results. AI-assisted answers use a separate bot, DuckAssistBot.

robots.txt name
DuckDuckBot
User agent
DuckDuckBot/1.1; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html)
Category
Search indexes: Crawl the web to build the index of a search engine or AI search.
Follows robots.txt
Yes
Official documentation
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot
Published IP ranges
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.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: DuckDuckBot
Disallow: /

To allow it everywhere except one folder:

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
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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