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DuckDuckGo bot verification

DuckDuckGo's DuckAssist fetcher publishes a Web Bot Auth signed-agent directory plus an IP allow-list. DutyRadar reports a verdict per request.

Bots covered

DuckAssistBot Retrieval crawler ✓ Signed (Web Bot Auth)

DuckDuckBot Traditional bot ✗ No source

Sample request

curl -X POST https://api.dutyradar.com/v1/classify \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer dr_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DuckAssistBot/1.0)"}'

Sample response

{
  "data": {
    "verdict": "verified_bot",
    "operator": "duckduckgo",
    "bot": {
      "name": "DuckAssistBot"
    },
    "category": "retrieval_crawler"
  },
  "error": null
}

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