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DuckAssistbot

Name: DuckAssistbot
Author: DuckDuckGo

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DuckAssistBot is a web crawler for DuckDuckGo Operated by DuckDuckGo.

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Assessment

AI Assistant

What is DuckAssistbot?

DuckAssistbot is a web crawler operated by DuckDuckGo. DuckAssistBot is a web crawler for DuckDuckGo

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

DuckAssistbot

Operator

DuckDuckGo

Why it crawls your site

DuckAssistbot crawls websites to collect and process web content. It is operated by DuckDuckGo as part of their web crawling infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow DuckAssistbot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for DuckAssistBot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block DuckAssistbot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

# Allow DuckAssistbot full access
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows DuckAssistBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to DuckDuckGo's documentation.