# GPTBot

> OpenAI · training

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

- **name:** GPTBot
- **operator:** OpenAI
- **purpose:** training
- **ua_substring:** GPTBot
- **robots_token:** GPTBot
- **respects_robots:** yes
- **verify:** published IP ranges at openai.com/gptbot-ranges.json
- **notes:** Crawls content that may be used to train OpenAI models.
- **canonical_name:** GPTBot
- **user_agent_token:** GPTBot
- **ua_full:** Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot (source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots)
- **bot_type:** training
- **bot_type_extension:** —
- **opt_out_mechanism:** robots.txt disallow (User-agent: GPTBot)
- **published_ip_range_url:** https://openai.com/gptbot.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:** 11.48% (source: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots)
- **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:** conditional — training crawler; allow to be represented in OpenAI model knowledge, block via robots.txt to opt out of training. No direct referral.
- **citation_referral_value:** low (training; does not itself cite or refer)
- **cloudflare_verified_category:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **status:** active
- **triples:** ["GPTBot","operated_by","OpenAI"], ["GPTBot","has_bot_type","training"], ["GPTBot","verified_via","published-IP-range"], ["GPTBot","has_crawl_share","11.48% (Radar 2026-05)"]
- **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"}, {"claims":["crawl_traffic_share"],"source":"https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots","last_verified":"2026-06-15"}