AI BOTS · OPENAI
OAI-SearchBot
Decides whether pages can appear in ChatGPT search answers. A visit is not a citation.
- Follows robots.txt
- Can be verified
- Docs checked 28 Oct 2026
- VerifiableIdentityIP ranges, Cloudflare
- Obeysrobots.txtFollows robots.txt
- PurposeAI search retrievalFor an AI product
- TokenOAI-SearchBotUse it in a User-agent line
robots.txt
The operator documents that this bot follows robots.txt rules.
Block OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /Allow OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /Quick facts
- robots.txt token
OAI-SearchBot- User agent contains
- OAI-SearchBot
- Operator
- OpenAI
- Category
- AI bots
- Purpose
- AI search retrieval
- robots.txt
- Follows robots.txt
- Verification
- Can be verified
- Documentation
- developers.openai.com · checked 28 Oct 2026
If you block it
Your pages can stop appearing, or being cited, in this product’s AI answers.
Check a visit is real
- Published IP ranges: openai.com/searchbot.json
- Listed by Cloudflare as a verified bot
Where this comes from
The same registry NdovuSEOLabs uses to classify crawler traffic in your server and CDN logs, built from the operator’s own documentation.
Registry version 2026-10-29.1
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