--- title: "What is DuckDuckBot? DuckDuckGo's Bot Explained | Kitbase" description: "DuckDuckGo's crawler for its own search results. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site." canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/duckduckbot --- [Home](/) [Bot Directory](/bot-directory) DuckDuckBot # DuckDuckBot by DuckDuckGo Search engine UA + IP range Crawls pages for a traditional search index, which is what lets them rank. DuckDuckGo's crawler for its own search results. ## What it usually means DuckDuckGo is crawling this page for its search index. ## How to identify it User-Agent tokens `duckduckbot` robots.txt stanza `User-agent: DuckDuckBot` Free tools [Verify a DuckDuckBot request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=duckduckbot) [Check if your site allows DuckDuckBot](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker) ## How it's verified Published IP-range endpoints - [https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.json](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.json) Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Sep 4, 2026 `104.43.54.127/32``104.43.55.116/32``104.43.55.117/32``104.43.55.166/32``104.43.55.167/32``108.141.83.74/32``128.203.132.152/32``128.203.181.79/32``128.203.214.241/32``128.203.236.110/32` 1 IP source configured [DuckDuckGo's page for DuckDuckBot](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/) ## Sources - [DuckDuckBot docs](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/) ## More from DuckDuckGo [ DuckAssistBot DuckDuckGo real-time crawler for AI-assisted answers with citations. ](/bot-directory/duckassistbot) ## Similar bots [ Amazonbot Amazon Amazon crawler used to improve Alexa answers and Amazon products. ](/bot-directory/amazonbot)[ Amzn-SearchBot Amazon Amazon crawler that makes content eligible for Amazon search experiences. ](/bot-directory/amzn-searchbot)[ Applebot Apple Apple crawler for Siri and Spotlight Suggestions, spanning search and training use. ](/bot-directory/applebot)[ Baiduspider Baidu Baidu's crawler for its search index. ](/bot-directory/baiduspider) ## See if DuckDuckBot has visited your site Kitbase verifies and tracks bot and AI crawler traffic separately from human visitors, so you know exactly who's hitting your site. [Start Free Trial](https://app.kitbase.dev/signup)