DeepSeekBot — DeepSeek's Training Crawler
DeepSeekBot collects training data for DeepSeek AI models. Learn how to block it in robots.txt.
QUICK FACTS
DeepSeekBot What is DeepSeekBot?
DeepSeekBot is the web crawler for DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company known for its open-weight DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 models. The crawler collects web content for model training. DeepSeek gained significant attention in early 2025 for releasing competitive open-weight models.
How to Block DeepSeekBot
Add the following to your robots.txt file (located at the root of your website):
User-agent: DeepSeekBot Disallow: /
What Happens When You Block DeepSeekBot
Your content will not be used for future DeepSeek model training.
Should You Block DeepSeekBot?
DeepSeekBot is a training crawler — it collects data to build AI models. If you want to prevent your content from being used in future AI training by DeepSeek, block it. This is a one-way decision: blocking today only affects future crawls, not data already collected.
DeepSeekBot vs Other DeepSeek Crawlers
DeepSeek currently operates DeepSeekBot as a standalone crawler. Unlike companies like OpenAI and Anthropic that split functionality across multiple user-agents, DeepSeek uses a single identifier for its AI crawling operations.
GENERATE YOUR ROBOTS.TXT
Use our visual generator to create a robots.txt file that blocks DeepSeekBot and any other crawlers you want to opt out of.