DuckAssistBot

Last updated 17 hours ago.

What is DuckAssistBot?

About

DuckAssistBot is used by DuckDuckGo's DuckAssist feature to fetch content and generate realtime AI answers to user searches.

You can set up agent analytics to see when DuckAssistBot visits your website.

Detail

Operator	DuckDuckGo
Documentation	http://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.html

Type

AI Assistant

Intelligently performs tasks on behalf of a user

Expected Behavior

AI assistants generally make one-off visits to websites based on user requests, rather than crawling the web in any automatic fashion.

Insights

DuckAssistBot Visiting Your Website

50% of your traffic probably comes from artificial agents, and there are more of them every day. Track their activity with the API or WordPress plugin.

Set Up Agent Analytics

Other Websites

0% of top websites are blocking DuckAssistBot

Learn How →

Probably not. AI assistants visit websites directly on behalf of human users, so blocking them will effectively block those users. This could lead to a poor user experience and possible negative sentiment about your website. Not blocking AI assistants will allow more human users to use your website as they choose.

Using Robots.txt

You can block DuckAssistBot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. We recommend setting up agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent Token	Description
`DuckAssistBot`	Should match instances of DuckAssistBot

# robots.txt
# This should block DuckAssistBot

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt