What is DuckDuckBot and what does it do?

DuckDuckBot is a web crawler for DuckDuckGo. It's job is to constantly improve our search results and offer users the best and most secure search experience possible. DuckDuckBot respects https://robotstxt.org/.

What's its user agent?

The crawler's user agent will appear as:

DuckDuckBot/1.1; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html)

Which IP addresses does it originate from?

The full list of IP addresses is available at https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.json

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