duckduckbot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTDuckDuckBot is the search engine crawler for the DuckDuckGo search engine. Operated by DuckDuckGo.
What is duckduckbot?
DuckDuckBot is a web crawler operated by DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckBot is the search engine crawler for the DuckDuckGo search engine. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.
Identification
DuckDuckBotHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- The Major Companies and Media Outlets Blocking OpenAI's Crawler GPTBot - Business Insider
- What Is a robots.txt File? (And When To Use One)
- Known Agents Review: Google Analytics for Bots | Agent Finder
- HUMAN and TollBit Empower Websites with Robust Bot Management and Content Monetization Solutions for AI Agents
Why it crawls your site
DuckDuckBot crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by DuckDuckGo as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
IP ranges
Requests from duckduckbot originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
Block or allow duckduckbot
Add a Disallow rule for DuckDuckBot 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 DuckDuckBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: DuckDuckBot Disallow: / # Allow DuckDuckBot full access User-agent: DuckDuckBot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows DuckDuckBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to DuckDuckGo's documentation.
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