# ChatGPT-User

> OpenAI · inference

_The AI Crawler Registry · /crawlers/chatgpt-user · [JSON](/api/crawlers/chatgpt-user) · [all The AI Crawler Registry](/crawlers)_

- **name:** ChatGPT-User
- **operator:** OpenAI
- **purpose:** inference
- **ua_substring:** ChatGPT-User
- **robots_token:** ChatGPT-User
- **respects_robots:** yes
- **verify:** published IP ranges (openai.com/chatgpt-user.json)
- **notes:** User-triggered fetch when a ChatGPT user or a GPT action requests a specific URL.
- **canonical_name:** ChatGPT-User
- **user_agent_token:** ChatGPT-User
- **ua_full:** Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot (source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots)
- **bot_type:** user-action-fetcher
- **bot_type_extension:** —
- **opt_out_mechanism:** robots.txt disallow (User-agent: ChatGPT-User); note OpenAI documents that user-initiated fetches behave as on-demand actions
- **published_ip_range_url:** https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json
- **asn:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **reverse_dns_suffix:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **supports_web_bot_auth:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **signature_agent_domain:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **jwks_url:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **verification_methods:** published-IP-range
- **crawl_traffic_share:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **targeted_content_type:** HTML, text
- **documentation_url:** https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- **first_seen_date:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **last_verified_date:** 2026-06-15
- **block_vs_allow_recommendation:** allow (default) — user-initiated fetch on a human's behalf; blocking degrades that user's ChatGPT experience.
- **citation_referral_value:** medium (fetches a specific page for a user; can surface it to them)
- **cloudflare_verified_category:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **status:** active
- **triples:** ["ChatGPT-User","operated_by","OpenAI"], ["ChatGPT-User","has_bot_type","user-action-fetcher"], ["ChatGPT-User","verified_via","published-IP-range"]
- **attribute_sources:** {"claims":["ua_full","user_agent_token","robots_token","published_ip_range_url","documentation_url"],"source":"https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots","last_verified":"2026-06-15"}