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DuckAssistBot
Crawls pages in real time for DuckDuckGo's AI-assisted answers, which cite sources. DuckDuckGo says the data is not used to train AI models.
- Run by
- DuckDuckGo
- Type
- Search bot
- robots.txt token
DuckAssistBot- User-agent string
DuckAssistBot/1.2; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.html)- Honours robots.txt
- Yes. DuckDuckGo says a Disallow takes effect after 72 hours and does not affect organic rankings.
- Official docs
- duckduckgo.com
- Published IP list
- duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.json
Block it
User-agent: DuckAssistBot Disallow: /
Allow it
User-agent: DuckAssistBot Allow: /
A named group replaces the * group for this bot, so repeat any private-path Disallow lines in it. Firewalls (Cloudflare AI Crawl Control, Vercel AI Bots ruleset) can block it even when robots.txt allows it. See fixes per stack.
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