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DuckDuckBot
Operated by DuckDuckGo · Search indexes
DuckDuckGo’s own indexing crawler — distinct from the DuckAssistBot answer fetcher.
User-agent token
DuckDuckBotrobots.txt
Documented to honour robots.txt
Allow or block DuckDuckBot
By default every well-behaved crawler is allowed. To block DuckDuckBot specifically, add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: DuckDuckBot Disallow: /
Official DuckDuckGo documentation
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