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# Daum

> Daum is a search engine crawler run by Kakao. Daum's crawler, which collects web documents for Daum web search. Daum says collected documents are not used for anything other than web search.

- Operator: Kakao
- Kind: Search engine crawler
- robots.txt token: Daum
- Follows robots.txt: yes
- Source: https://cs.daum.net/faq/service/15/category/4118/detail/28961 (checked 2026-11-05)
- Page: https://invisit.dev/bots/daum

## What is Daum?

Daum's crawler, which collects web documents for Daum web search. Daum says collected documents are not used for anything other than web search.

Crawls pages for a classic search index. Blocking it removes you from that search engine.

Daum also runs Daum-Preview for link previews, which uses the same IP list. The robots.txt token is not case sensitive.

- [Kakao’s documentation](https://cs.daum.net/faq/service/15/category/4118/detail/28961)

## Daum user agent

Kakao documents this user agent for Daum. Version numbers in it change over time, so match on the name, not the whole string.

```
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Daum/4.1; +https://cs.daum.net/faq/service/15/category/4118/detail/28966)
```

## Should you block Daum?

Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.

## How to block Daum in robots.txt

Add a group for its token to robots.txt at the root of your site.

A bot follows only the group that names it, so it ignores your `User-agent: *` rules once it has a group of its own. Repeat any paths you also want kept from it there.

```
User-agent: Daum
Disallow: /
```

- [Build a robots.txt for AI bots](https://invisit.dev/tools/robots-txt-generator)

## How to verify a request is really Daum

Anyone can send any user agent, so the string alone proves nothing.

Kakao publishes the IP ranges Daum crawls from. A request that claims to be Daum from any other address is not Daum.

- [Daum IP ranges](https://webmaster.daum.net/crawler/daumbot.json)

## See when Daum reads your site

Bots don’t run JavaScript analytics, so a script tag never sees them. invisit records crawler reads on the server instead, through its server SDK or a Cloudflare Worker, and shows which bots read which pages, next to your visitors.

- [Track crawlers with invisit](https://invisit.dev/docs/server/sdk#crawler-reads)

## Common questions

### What is Daum?

Daum is a search engine crawler run by Kakao. Daum's crawler, which collects web documents for Daum web search. Daum says collected documents are not used for anything other than web search.

### Is Daum safe to block?

Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.

### How do I block Daum?

Add “User-agent: Daum” followed by “Disallow: /” to your robots.txt.