OpenAI SearchBot

Last updated about 22 hours ago.

CompliantCrawler

OpenAI SearchBot Traffic (Last 90 Days)

Avg Share

0.489%

Peak

1.406%

Total Visits

37,054

Active Days

91/91

↓ 29.3% vs previous week

What is OpenAI SearchBot?

About

OAI-SearchBot is for search. OAI-SearchBot is used to surface websites in search results in ChatGPT’s search features. Sites that are opted out of OAI-SearchBot will not be shown in ChatGPT search answers, though can still appear as navigational links.

Operator

OpenAI

Documentationplatform.openai.com

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Did you find 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 in your logs?

If you've seen 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 in your website logs, it indicates that OpenAI SearchBot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.

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

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Expected Behavior

Web crawlers visit websites on a regular schedule to index content for search engines or other services. They typically follow a consistent crawling pattern and respect robots.txt directives.

Should I Block OpenAI SearchBot?

This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.

How Do I Block OpenAI SearchBot?

You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.

User Agent Tokens

OAI-SearchBotShould match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block OpenAI SearchBot

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

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