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DeepSeekBot
DeepSeek's crawler for training and its in-house search engine. The ai.robots.txt project lists it as not respecting robots.txt.
- Operator
- DeepSeek
- Purpose
- Mixed / general
- Used for
- DeepSeek models and search
- Obeys robots.txt
- No
- robots.txt token
DeepSeekBot- User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DeepSeekBot/1.0; +https://www.deepseek.com/)- IP list
- Not published
- Official docs
- None published
- Feeds
- DeepSeek
Block DeepSeekBot in robots.txt
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /Well-known sites that block DeepSeekBot
amazon.com #30, amazonvideo.com #85, msn.com #92, sciencedirect.com #224, weibo.com #318, amazon.co.uk #326, amazon.de #387, amazon.co.jp #490, usatoday.com #617, dailymail.com #619, telegraph.co.uk #629, amazon.fr #632, amazon.ca #633, sophos.com #643, elpais.com #674, amazon.in #676, primevideo.com #678, lemonde.fr #700, amazon.es #714, dailymail.co.uk #717, amazon.it #735, cnet.com #737, amazon.co.za #786, ted.com #823
Questions
What is DeepSeekBot?
DeepSeekBot is a mixed / general bot operated by DeepSeek, used for DeepSeek models and search. DeepSeek's crawler for training and its in-house search engine. The ai.robots.txt project lists it as not respecting robots.txt.
How do I block DeepSeekBot?
Add "User-agent: DeepSeekBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of each host you want to protect. DeepSeekBot is reported not to honour robots.txt, so a firewall or bot-management rule is more reliable.
Does DeepSeekBot respect robots.txt?
Not reliably. DeepSeekBot is documented or widely reported as ignoring robots.txt.
How many websites block DeepSeekBot?
In a Oct 29, 2026 analysis of the top 10,000 websites by Kuldeep Paul, 6.8% of sites with a robots.txt file fully disallowed DeepSeekBot.
Analysis using this data
- Who blocks AI crawlers? What 10,000 robots.txt files revealPublishers block training, not answers; half of all blocklists leak; Cloudflare writes the most common AI policy.
- The opt-out asymmetry: you can block the small AI engines, not the big oneThe AI surfaces with the most users are the ones publishers can't refuse and can't measure.
How to cite this data
This dataset is free to use, including commercially, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The one rule is attribution:
- Credit the source as “Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc” wherever you use a figure, chart or table from it.
- Link to this page (https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/deepseekbot), not to the download file, so readers can check the source of every number.
- Include the date. These figures change; say “as of Oct 29, 2026” or link to the version you used.
- Mark changes. If you filter, recalculate or chart the data yourself, say so (“analysis based on data from…”).
- Cite the original source for single figures when you quote one reported number; it is linked in every row.
In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's DeepSeekBot — AI crawler directory (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.
Paul, K. (2026). DeepSeekBot — AI crawler directory [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/deepseekbot
Paul, Kuldeep. "DeepSeekBot — AI crawler directory." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/deepseekbot.
Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "DeepSeekBot — AI crawler directory." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/deepseekbot.
@misc{paul2026deepseekbot, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {DeepSeekBot — AI crawler directory}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/deepseekbot}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }
<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/deepseekbot">DeepSeekBot — AI crawler directory</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)