# OAI-AdsBot

> OpenAI · ad-verification

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

- **name:** OAI-AdsBot
- **operator:** OpenAI
- **purpose:** ad-verification
- **ua_substring:** OAI-AdsBot
- **robots_token:** OAI-AdsBot
- **respects_robots:** yes
- **verify:** published IP ranges (OpenAI publishes per-bot range files); confirm against the OpenAI bots documentation
- **notes:** Validates ad landing pages for OpenAI's advertising products. Listed alongside GPTBot/OAI-SearchBot/ChatGPT-User in OpenAI's bots documentation.
- **canonical_name:** OAI-AdsBot
- **user_agent_token:** OAI-AdsBot
- **ua_full:** Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot (source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots)
- **bot_type:** user-action-fetcher
- **bot_type_extension:** —
- **opt_out_mechanism:** robots.txt disallow (User-agent: OAI-AdsBot)
- **published_ip_range_url:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **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 (ad landing pages)
- **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 — validates ad landing pages; allow if you run ads through OpenAI's ad products, otherwise low impact to block.
- **citation_referral_value:** low (ad landing-page validation; not an answer-engine citer)
- **cloudflare_verified_category:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **status:** active
- **triples:** ["OAI-AdsBot","operated_by","OpenAI"], ["OAI-AdsBot","has_bot_type","user-action-fetcher"], ["OAI-AdsBot","verified_via","published-IP-range"]
- **attribute_sources:** {"claims":["ua_full","user_agent_token","robots_token","documentation_url"],"source":"https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots","last_verified":"2026-06-15"}