AI model crawlers

DeepSeekBot

DeepSeeklow confidence

Reported as a DeepSeek crawler collecting web content for AI model training (UA 'DeepSeekBot/1.0; +https://www.deepseek.com/bot'). The referenced deepseek.com/bot page returned 404 on 2026-10-23, so there is no confirmed first-party documentation.

Dossier

Operator: DeepSeek
Documentation: None published
robots.txt token: DeepSeekBot
Feeds: model training
Follows robots.txt: Not documentedThird-party directories list it as expected to follow robots.txt; no published verification method; UA spoofing is easy.
How to verify: No published method
Names in our logs: deepseekbot
Researched: 23 Oct 2026

Observed on New Runtime

Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…

Requests: 15
Days active: 5 / 93
First seen: 25 Aug 2026
Last seen: 21 Oct 2026

Returningother_bot

Daily requests across the observed window, square-root scale.

Identity check claimed vs verified

No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.

What it reads crawler journeys · current window

The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.

Sources

knownagents.comknownagents.com/agents/deepseekbot
deepseek.comwww.deepseek.com/bot