Agent directory ยท AI training crawler
DeepSeekBot
A crawler run by DeepSeek, the company behind the DeepSeek AI models.
- Run by
- DeepSeek
- Type
- AI training crawler
- Robots.txt name
DeepSeekBot- Verifiable
- Not yet
What DeepSeekBot does
A crawler run by DeepSeek, the company behind the DeepSeek AI models.
As an AI training crawler, it collects public pages that may be used to train AI models. The kinds of AI agent that visit websites.
Should you allow it?
A real business choice. Lean towards blocking if your content is the product (publishing, research, courses); lean towards allowing if your pages exist to sell something else. A decision guide for blocking or allowing AI crawlers.
How to allow or block DeepSeekBot
DeepSeekBot reads the DeepSeekBot group in your robots.txt. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere, even if another rule blocks other bots:
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Allow: /Robots.txt is a request, not a lock: well-behaved crawlers follow it, impostors don't. Robots.txt for AI agents.
How to tell if it's really DeepSeekBot
Our registry doesn't verify DeepSeekBot against published IP ranges yet, so treat a request that uses the name as a claim, not proof: anyone can send its user agent. Check DeepSeek's documentation for how to verify it.
Does DeepSeekBot visit your site? Ghost Agent Lab reads your CDN or server logs and shows every request from DeepSeekBot and 1,566+ other known agents: what they read, what your site sent back, and whether each request was genuine. See agent traffic, or check whether AI agents can use your site for free.