Known bots · DuckDuckGo

What is DuckDuckBot?

DuckDuckGo’s search engine's crawler. tidekeeper knows it by its User-Agent, and checks each read against the addresses DuckDuckGo publishes.

Run by
DuckDuckGo
Reads for
Search engine
Known by
“duckduckbot” in its User-Agent, and DuckDuckBot in robots.txt
Its addresses
DuckDuckGo publishes them: duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.json. tidekeeper checks every read against the list.
Its owner’s page
duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot

Keep it out

robots.txt
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Disallow: /

Or only part of the site: Disallow: /private/ under the same User-agent line.

On tidekeeper.eu

DuckDuckBot has not read tidekeeper.eu in the last 30 days.

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