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DeepSeekBot

Crawls the web for other DeepSeek products. Here is how to recognise it, verify it, and allow or block it.

Company: DeepSeek
Product: DeepSeek
Why it visits: Other crawling
How to verify: Name only
User-agent contains: DeepSeekBot

How to tell a real DeepSeekBot from a fake

DeepSeek publishes no IP list and no DNS names for DeepSeekBot, so a visit can’t be proven real. Anyone can put “DeepSeekBot” in a user-agent. Treat it as unverified, and watch how much it crawls.

Check a DeepSeekBot visit

Allow or block DeepSeekBot in robots.txt

Block it everywhere:

User-agent: DeepSeekBot Disallow: /

Allow it everywhere:

User-agent: DeepSeekBot Allow: /

Fake bots ignore robots.txt: block them by address in your firewall instead.