OAI-SearchBot
OpenAI · search
- name
- OAI-SearchBot
- operator
- OpenAI
- purpose
- search
- ua_substring
- OAI-SearchBot
- robots_token
- OAI-SearchBot
- respects_robots
- yes
- verify
- published IP ranges (openai.com publishes searchbot ranges)
- notes
- Surfaces and links sites in ChatGPT search. Does not train models.
- canonical_name
- OAI-SearchBot
- user_agent_token
- OAI-SearchBot
- ua_full
- Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/searchbot source
- bot_type
- search-index
- bot_type_extension
- —
- opt_out_mechanism
- robots.txt disallow (User-agent: OAI-SearchBot)
- published_ip_range_url
- https://openai.com/searchbot.json
- asn
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://openai.com/searchbot.json
- reverse_dns_suffix
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- supports_web_bot_auth
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- signature_agent_domain
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- jwks_url
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- verification_methods
published-IP-range- crawl_traffic_share
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ 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 ↗ https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- last_verified_date
- 2026-06-15
- block_vs_allow_recommendation
- allow — search crawler that surfaces and links your site in ChatGPT search; does not train. Blocking forfeits citation/referral.
- citation_referral_value
- high (links sites in ChatGPT search results)
- cloudflare_verified_category
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory/oai-searchbot
- status
- active
- triples
["OAI-SearchBot","operated_by","OpenAI"]["OAI-SearchBot","has_bot_type","search-index"]["OAI-SearchBot","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"}