DuckDuckBot
DuckDuckGo's own crawler. Used for Instant Answers and a small supplemental index. The bulk of DuckDuckGo's search results are licensed from Bing — site visibility there is mostly controlled by Bingbot access.
Specs
| Vendor | DuckDuckGo |
| Category | SEARCH |
| robots.txt token | DuckDuckBot |
| Renders JavaScript | HTTP only |
| Honors robots.txt | yes |
User-Agent string
DuckDuckBot/1.1; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html)Considerations
- Low traffic volume. Most sites see it less than once a day.
- Disallowing DuckDuckBot only blocks the Instant-Answers crawl. Bing-licensed results continue.
- DuckDuckGo also runs DuckAssistBot for its AI features, with its own token.
robots.txt recipe
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /Sources: DuckDuckGo · DuckDuckBot reference