Rattlesnakes By Mail

ClaudeBot vs OAI-SearchBot

ClaudeBot and OAI-SearchBot compared on 15 documented fields, from 22 claims, last verified 2026-09-15.

FieldClaudeBotOAI-SearchBotComparison
anti_circumvention_stancedocumentednot documenteddifferent
cites_sourcesnot documentedyesdifferent
honours_crawl_delayyesnot_documenteddifferent
observed_arrival_before_sitemapnot documentedyesdifferent
observed_fetches_jsonyesnot documenteddifferent
observed_fetches_markdownyesnot documenteddifferent
observed_first_request_path/sitemap.xmlnot documenteddifferent
observed_format_pass_orderhtml_json_mdnot documenteddifferent
publishes_ip_listyesyessame
purpose_documentedtrainingsearchdifferent
reads_llms_txtnot documentednot_documenteddifferent
respects_robots_txtyesyessame
separate_search_and_training_tokensyesyessame
user_agent_string_fullnot_documentedMozilla/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/1.4; +https://openai.com/searchbotdifferent
verifiable_by_rdnsnot_documentednot_documentedsame

Differences

FieldClaudeBot statementOAI-SearchBot statement
anti_circumvention_stanceClaudeBot respects anti-circumvention technologies and does not bypass CAPTCHAs on crawled sites.not documented
cites_sourcesnot documentedOAI-SearchBot surfaces crawled websites as links in ChatGPT search answers.
honours_crawl_delayAnthropic supports the non-standard robots.txt Crawl-delay extension for ClaudeBot.OpenAI does not publish whether OAI-SearchBot honours the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive.
observed_arrival_before_sitemapnot documentedOAI-SearchBot first requested Rattlesnakes By Mail at 2026-09-13T21:41:14Z, before the Rattlesnakes By Mail sitemap was submitted to Bing Webmaster Tools shortly before 2026-09-15T08:38Z and to Google Search Console at 2026-09-15T09:00Z. OAI-SearchBot made 3 requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, all 3 to /robots.txt.
observed_fetches_jsonClaudeBot made 177 JSON requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, covering the .json twin of 170 base paths. The .json URLs of Rattlesnakes By Mail appear in no entry of the 171 URL sitemap.not documented
observed_fetches_markdownClaudeBot fetched the .md twin of 170 base paths on Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, 170 Markdown requests of 542 ClaudeBot requests in that window. The .md URLs of Rattlesnakes By Mail appear in no entry of the 171 URL sitemap.not documented
observed_first_request_pathClaudeBot's first request to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z was /sitemap.xml at 2026-09-14T19:53:45Z. ClaudeBot fetched /robots.txt on the second request to Rattlesnakes By Mail.not documented
observed_format_pass_orderClaudeBot fetched Rattlesnakes By Mail in three format passes between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, HTML from 2026-09-14T20:52Z to 2026-09-14T20:57Z, then JSON from 2026-09-14T21:37Z to 2026-09-14T21:56Z, then Markdown from 2026-09-14T21:37Z to 2026-09-14T21:57Z. The same order holds on 170 of 170 base paths that ClaudeBot fetched in all three formats on Rattlesnakes By Mail.not documented
purpose_documentedClaudeBot collects web content for training Anthropic generative AI models.OAI-SearchBot surfaces websites in search results in ChatGPT search features.
reads_llms_txtnot documentedOpenAI does not publish whether OAI-SearchBot reads llms.txt files.
user_agent_string_fullAnthropic does not publish a full user agent string for ClaudeBot.OAI-SearchBot sends the user agent string 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/1.4; +https://openai.com/searchbot.

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