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"}

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