# OAI-SearchBot

OpenAI search bot, purpose: search.

## Identity

vendor: OpenAI
kind: search_bot
purpose: search
ua_token: OAI-SearchBot
robots_token: OAI-SearchBot
ip_list_url: https://openai.com/searchbot.json
docs_url: https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots
status: active

Surfaces web pages in ChatGPT search results.

## Claims

| Field | Value | Confidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| cites_sources | yes | medium |
| honours_crawl_delay | not_documented | n/a |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high |
| purpose_documented | search | high |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | n/a |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | high |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | yes | high |
| user_agent_string_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/1.4; +https://openai.com/searchbot | high |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | n/a |

## Observations

requests, last 30 days: 1
verified share, last 30 days: 100%
daily rows recorded: 1

## Changes

| Date | Kind | Old value | New value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | search |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | 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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