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DeepSeek bots and crawlers
DeepSeek builds open-weight language models based in China.
DeepSeek bots at a glance
- DeepSeek runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Training Crawlers.
- Each DeepSeek bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.deepseek.com
Every DeepSeek bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeekBot | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingReported | No | Consider blocking |
Block or allow all DeepSeek bots
The rules below name every DeepSeek token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all DeepSeek bots
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all DeepSeek bots
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all DeepSeek bots out of private areas only
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all DeepSeek bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(DeepSeekBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all DeepSeek bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (DeepSeekBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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