Search engines
DuckDuckBot
DuckDuckGo's web crawler, used to improve DuckDuckGo search results.
Dossier
- Operator
- DuckDuckGo
- Documentation
- duckduckgo.com
- robots.txt token
DuckDuckBot- Feeds
- search index
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes, per its documentationRespects robots exclusion via WWW::RobotRules.
- How to verify
- Published IP rangesduckduckgo.com
- Names in our logs
duckduckbot- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 10
- Days active
- 9 / 93
- First seen
- 11 Aug 2026
- Last seen
- 15 Oct 2026
Returningsearch_crawler
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.
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- duckduckgo.comduckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot