AI crawler directory
What is DuckAssistBot?
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Crawls pages in real time for DuckDuckGo Search's AI-assisted answers, which cite their sources. DuckDuckGo says the data is not used to train AI models, and opting out does not affect organic rankings.
DuckAssistBot at a glance
- Operator
- DuckDuckGo
- Kind
- Crawler: fetches on its own schedule
- Used for
- Search index
- Feeds
- DuckDuckGo AI-assisted answers
- robots.txt token
DuckAssistBot- User agent string
DuckAssistBot/1.2; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.html)
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes. DuckDuckGo: a robots.txt disallow takes effect after 72 hours.
- Runs JavaScript
- Not documented by the operator
- Published IP ranges
- duckassistbot.json: https://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.jsonCheck an address against these ranges
- Official source
- Is DuckAssistBot related to DuckDuckGo?https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckassistbot
- Verified
Every AI crawler in one table
DuckAssistBot is one of 29 crawlers and fetchers in the AI crawler directory, each checked against its operator's own documentation.