DuckDuckBot
Crawls for DuckDuckGo search results.
| robots.txt token | DuckDuckBot |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes |
| Verification | DuckDuckGo publishes IP ranges |
| Our recommendation | Allow — Search traffic, no strings attached. |
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User-agent: DuckDuckBot
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