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What is DuckDuckBot and what does it do?

DuckDuckBot is a web crawler for DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckBot’s job is to constantly improve our search results and offer users the best and most secure search experience possible. The crawler’s user agent will appear as DuckDuckBot/1.1; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html). It respects WWW:RobotRules and originates from these IP addresses:

If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know.


Prior versions on GitHub.