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DuckAssistBot

Operated by DuckDuckGo. Identity is self-declared and unverified.

3Requests
3Distinct IPs
2Well-known probes
2026-09-05First seen
2026-09-05Last seen

Identity

Kindcrawler
Familyduckduckgo
Stated purposeretrieval
UA matchduckassistbot
Verifiedno
robots.txtinsufficient-data

What it went looking for

The order and selection of discovery paths is a design fingerprint: it reflects which conventions whoever built this client decided to support.

PathHitsFirstLast
/robots.txt22026-09-052026-09-05

Protocol fingerprint

HTTPTLSCipherALPNRequests
HTTP/1.1TLS1.3TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256--2
HTTP/2.0TLS1.3TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256h21

TLS client fingerprint

Captured off the wire before the proxy terminates TLS. JA4 is stable across IP changes and much harder to spoof than a User-Agent string, so it is the strongest identity signal on this page.

JA4JA3TLSALPNSeen
t13d131100_f57a46bbacb6_ab7e3b40a67720b279993ae2e137...13--2
t13d1312h2_f57a46bbacb6_ab7e3b40a677e69402f870ecf542...13h2,http/1.11

Requests per day (60 days)

DayRequests 
2026-09-053