What is DuckAssistBot?
DuckAssistBot is DuckDuckGo's answer fetcher. It fetches pages in real time to write the AI-assisted answers in DuckDuckGo search.
- Operator
- DuckDuckGo
- Class
- Fetches pages to answer a question
- Verification
- Published networksDevTune checks that each request comes from DuckDuckGo's own network, using the address ranges, DNS names or network routes DuckDuckGo publishes. A request it can't match isn't counted as verified.
- Web Bot AuthDuckDuckGo signs requests with a key it publishes. DevTune checks the signature on each signed request against that key.
On your site
It requests a page when a person's request needs it, not on a crawl. AI Traffic counts its page requests as answer fetches.
AI Traffic setup
Connect a crawler sensor (Cloudflare pull, edge middleware or a Vercel log drain) to see which pages DuckAssistBot requests on your site.
Set up AI Traffic