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DeepSeekBot
DeepSeek (unconfirmed)Honours robots.txt
Third-party bot lists attribute this user agent to DeepSeek, but DeepSeek publishes no official crawler documentation, declared user agent or IP ranges — treat it as unverified. Relevant to any brand that cares about Chinese AI answer visibility — but do not assume this specific agent is genuine.
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DeepSeekBot/1.0; +https://www.deepseek.com)
How to verify it
Unverified. DeepSeek publishes no crawler IP ranges; the string is easily spoofed, so confirm by ASN before acting on it.
What blocking costs
Relevant to any brand that cares about Chinese AI answer visibility — but do not assume this specific agent is genuine.
robots.txt rule
# Block DeepSeekBot
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /
# Allow everything else
User-agent: *
Allow: /Robots.txt is enough
DeepSeek (unconfirmed) documents DeepSeekBot as honouring robots.txt. Verify with your logs after deploying — a spoofed agent will keep coming.
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