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DuckAssistBot
Crawlers and fetchers behind AI products: model training, AI search and assistants that fetch a page for a user.
- Follows robots.txt
- Can be verified
- Docs checked 28 Oct 2026
- VerifiableIdentityIP ranges
- Obeysrobots.txtFollows robots.txt
- PurposeAI search retrieval, User-directed fetchFor an AI product
- TokenDuckAssistBotUse it in a User-agent line
robots.txt
The operator documents that this bot follows robots.txt rules.
Block DuckAssistBot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /Allow DuckAssistBot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /Quick facts
- robots.txt token
DuckAssistBot- User agent contains
- DuckAssistBot
- Operator
- DuckDuckGo
- Category
- AI bots
- Purpose
- AI search retrieval, User-directed fetch
- robots.txt
- Follows robots.txt
- Verification
- Can be verified
- Documentation
- duckduckgo.com · checked 28 Oct 2026
If you block it
Your pages can stop appearing, or being cited, in this product’s AI answers.
Check a visit is real
- Published IP ranges: duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.json
Where this comes from
The same registry NdovuSEOLabs uses to classify crawler traffic in your server and CDN logs, built from the operator’s own documentation.
Registry version 2026-10-29.1
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