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DuckAssistBot
Operated by DuckDuckGo · AI answers
Real-time AI-assisted answers with citations.
User-agent token
DuckAssistBotrobots.txt
Documented to honour robots.txt
Allow or block DuckAssistBot
By default every well-behaved crawler is allowed. To block DuckAssistBot specifically, add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: DuckAssistBot Disallow: /
Official DuckDuckGo documentation
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