DuckDuckGo
DuckAssistBot
Privacy-first agent that fetches content from trusted sources like Wikipedia to generate AI summaries in DuckDuckGo search.
Purpose: Real-time AI summarization (DuckAssist)
📊 Popularity & Traffic
Triggered specifically for 'instant answer' queries, primarily on reference sites.
🤖 User Agent Strings
Use these patterns to identify DuckAssistBot in your server logs or configure your robots.txt file.
DuckAssistBot
Respects robots.txtSpecialized AI summarization agent
DuckAssistBot🌐 IP Ranges
Source: DuckDuckGo infrastructure (AWS based)
No specific IP ranges published. Identify this bot using the User Agent strings above.
📝 Robots.txt Configuration
Add the following to your robots.txt file to block DuckAssistBot:
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /💡 Important Notes
- Separate from the general DuckDuckBot search crawler
- Operates on-demand based on user queries rather than continuous mass crawling
- Focuses on trusted, openly-licensed sources like Wikipedia and Britannica
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