AI Bot Directory / DuckAssistBot
What is DuckAssistBot?
DuckAssistBot is DuckDuckGo's on-demand fetcher: it hits a page in real time when a person asks the assistant about it. Every hit is a human, right now, asking an AI about your content.
Last 7 days: 3 hits across 1 reporting sites. Live aggregate data on the AI Crawler Traffic Report.
How to spot DuckAssistBot in your logs
Look for this token in the request User-Agent (case-insensitive):
duckassistbot
Should you allow or block DuckAssistBot?
Blocking it breaks real-time page reads when users ask the AI about your site. Almost nobody benefits from blocking assistant fetchers.
To block it anyway, add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: DuckAssistBot Disallow: /
Note: robots.txt is a request, not a lock — well-behaved crawlers honor it; verify with your own traffic data.
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