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CRAWLER OPERATOR

DuckDuckGo crawlers.

DuckDuckGo runs 2 bots in this directory: DuckDuckBot, DuckAssistBot. Each can be allowed or blocked on its own.

  • 2 bots
  • 2 can be verified
  • 1 for AI products
DuckDuckGo2 bots
  • VerifiableDuckDuckBotSearch indexing
  • VerifiableDuckAssistBotAI search retrieval, User-directed fetch

DUCKDUCKGO

Every DuckDuckGo bot.

Open a bot for its robots.txt rule, verification and documentation.

2 bots

DuckDuckGoVerifiable

DuckAssistBot

DuckAssistBot

  • AI search retrieval
  • User-directed fetch

Follows robots.txt

DuckDuckGoVerifiable

DuckDuckBot

DuckDuckBot

  • Search indexing

Follows robots.txt

See which of these crawlers visit your site.

Crawl Analytics reads your own server and CDN logs and checks each claim against the operator’s published IP ranges and DNS.