DuckAssistBot
AI assistant fetcherFetches pages to generate DuckAssist AI answers in DuckDuckGo search, with source links back to the pages used.
| Operator | DuckDuckGo |
| Type | AI assistant fetcher |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes (documented) |
| Documentation | Official operator documentation |
DuckAssistBot user-agent string
This is how DuckAssistBot identifies itself in your server logs:
DuckAssistBot/1.1; (+http://www.duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.html)How to block DuckAssistBot in robots.txt
Add this to the robots.txt file at the root of your site:
Block DuckAssistBot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /Explicitly allow DuckAssistBot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /What blocking changes: Your pages stop being used or cited in DuckAssist answers. Regular DuckDuckGo search indexing (DuckDuckBot) is separate.
Want to decide for all AI bots at once? Use the AI robots.txt generator.
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