OAI-SearchBot

OpenAI · AI search crawlers · json

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenOAI-SearchBot
User-agent containsOAI-SearchBot
OperatorOpenAI
CategoryAI search crawlers
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify bypublished IP ranges
Published ranges35 IPv4 + 0 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

Builds the index ChatGPT search answers from. Content it collects is used for retrieval and citation, not for model training.

What blocking it costs you

High. Blocking this removes you from ChatGPT search results and from the source links ChatGPT shows. This is the single most expensive block on this list for anyone who wants to be cited by an assistant.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/searchbot

Allow it instead

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-all-ai · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility