# DuckDuckBot

Category: [Crawling & Indexing](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/category/crawling-indexing/) › [Crawlers & bots](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/category/crawling-indexing/crawlers-bots/)

**DuckDuckBot** is the web crawler of the DuckDuckGo search engine. DuckDuckGo says its job is to keep improving DuckDuckGo's search results.

## What role does DuckDuckBot play?

DuckDuckGo says it sources traditional links and images largely from Bing. It also runs its own crawler, DuckDuckBot, and many indexes, and adds specialized sources such as Wikipedia. AI-assisted answers use a separate bot, DuckAssistBot.

According to DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckBot respects robots.txt. DuckDuckGo lists the IP addresses it crawls from on its help page and as a JSON file, which lets you check in log files whether a request really comes from DuckDuckBot.

## Example

```robots
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Disallow: /internal/
```

User agent per DuckDuckGo: `DuckDuckBot/1.1; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html)`

## At a glance

- **Operator:** DuckDuckGo
- **Purpose:** crawler to improve DuckDuckGo search results
- **User agent:** DuckDuckBot/1.1; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html)
- **Respects robots.txt:** yes, per DuckDuckGo (WWW::RobotRules)
- **IP list:** [duckduckbot.json](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.json)
- **Docs:** [DuckDuckGo Help Pages](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot)

Last checked: October 8, 2026

## Related terms

- [DuckAssistBot](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/duckassistbot/index.md)
- [Bingbot](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/bingbot/index.md)
- [Web crawler](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/web-crawler/index.md)
- [robots.txt](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/robots-txt/index.md)

## Sources

- [DuckDuckBot – DuckDuckGo Help Pages](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot)
- [Where do DuckDuckGo search results come from? – DuckDuckGo Help Pages](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources)
- [DuckDuckBot IP list (JSON)](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.json)

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Last updated: October 8, 2026
URL: https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/duckduckbot/