Training crawlers
DeepSeekBot is a bot operated by DeepSeek that collects pages used to train AI models. DeepSeekBot is a web crawler used by DeepSeek to train its language models and improve its AI products. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.
Request says
"DeepSeekBot"
Checked against
Nothing published
Live check
No operator check exists for DeepSeekBot. This still shows what the address really is.
Reference
| User agent | DeepSeekBotToken only: match on the substring. |
|---|---|
| Operator | DeepSeek |
| Purpose | Training language models and improving AI products |
| Respects robots.txt | Ignores |
| Verification method | Claim onlyNone published, user agent only No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof. |
| Crawl pattern | Not published |
| Robots.txt tokens | DeepSeekBot |
| Operator documentation | None published |
DeepSeekBot is a web crawler used by DeepSeek to train its language models and improve its AI products.
robots.txt
DeepSeekBot is documented as ignoring robots.txt. Enforce a block at your CDN too.
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Allow: /User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /searchEdit the Disallow paths to match your own URLs.
Blocking DeepSeekBot keeps your pages out of the next training run. It does not remove anything already collected, and it has no effect on how the site ranks in ordinary search.
Build a file for every crawlerFAQ
DeepSeekBot is a bot operated by DeepSeek that collects pages used to train AI models. DeepSeekBot is a web crawler used by DeepSeek to train its language models and improve its AI products. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.
Site-owner reports suggest DeepSeekBot does not reliably follow robots.txt. Add the rule anyway, then check your logs; if requests continue, block at the edge by user agent or source address.
You cannot, at least not from the request itself. No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof. Compare the source IP against hosting and datacenter ranges instead, and rate limit anything that behaves like a crawler.
Add the DeepSeekBot token to robots.txt with Disallow: /. If the crawler ignores robots.txt, match the user agent at your CDN or reverse proxy and return 403 there instead.
Blocking DeepSeekBot keeps your pages out of the next training run. It does not remove anything already collected, and it has no effect on how the site ranks in ordinary search.