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description: "DuckDuckGo in the Crawler Index: 2 crawlers and agents with tokens, purposes, verification method and block rates, read 2026-11-04. Two IP lists."
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# DuckDuckGo crawlers and agents | Agent Ready Crawlers

> DuckDuckGo in the Crawler Index: 2 crawlers and agents with tokens, purposes, verification method and block rates, read 2026-11-04. Two IP lists.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/operator/duckduckgo
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# DuckDuckGo: 2 rows

In short

DuckDuckGo has 2 rows in the Index: DuckAssistBot and DuckDuckBot. They cover 2 purposes: live answer fetch, search index. 2 of them have a robots.txt token and 0 publish nothing a site can verify. The most refused is DuckAssistBot, disallowed at the root by 8.1 percent of top-10,000 sites. Two IP lists.

DuckDuckGo: 2 rows.

| Operator | Token | Purpose | Respects robots.txt | Verification | Block rate 2026-11-04 | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DuckDuckGo | DuckAssistBot | Live answer fetch | Yes | IP list | 8.1% | Profile |
| DuckDuckGo | DuckDuckBot | Search index | Yes | IP list | not measured | Profile |

Vendor profile: [DuckDuckGo](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/duckduckgo/), with its products, standards, our probes and what it does not do.

## Verification Ledger entry

Summary

Two IP lists.

IP lists

-   [duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.json](https://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.json)
-   [duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.json](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.json)

Reverse DNS

publishes nothing

Key directory

publishes nothing

Cloudflare

not checked

Visa and Mastercard

Visa TAP: no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04). Mastercard Agent Pay: no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04).

## Block rates for DuckDuckGo tokens

| Token | Refused, top 10,000 | Named | Via * | All crawled |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DuckAssistBot | 8.1% | 4.3% | 3.8% | 5.8% |

Based on 5,938 top-10,000 sites with a parsed robots.txt; crawl of 2026-11-04.

## Sources

-   [duckduckgo.com: duckassistbot](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckassistbot) read 2026-11-04
-   [duckduckgo.com: duckassistbot (JSON)](https://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.json) read 2026-11-04
-   [duckduckgo.com: duckduckbot](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot) read 2026-11-04
-   [duckduckgo.com: duckduckbot (JSON)](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.json) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04