OAI-SearchBot
OpenAI · AI search index
What OpenAI says it does
“used to surface websites in search results in ChatGPT's search features”
The facts
| Operator | OpenAI |
| robots.txt token | OAI-SearchBot |
| Appears in access logs | Yes |
| 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 |
| robots.txt | Honors robots.txt. OpenAI documents the token so sites can opt out of ChatGPT search. Blocking it removes a site from ChatGPT's search results, not from model training; that is GPTBot's token. |
| IP list | https://openai.com/searchbot.json |
| Documentation | https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots, read 4 Aug 2026 |
Allow or block it in robots.txt
To block OAI-SearchBot entirely:
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Disallow: /
To allow it everywhere:
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: /
Verify a request is really OAI-SearchBot
Match the requesting IP against the published list.
Observed on this property
| First seen here | 4 Aug 2026 |
| Most recent | 4 Aug 2026 |
| Requests, last 30 days | 2 |
| Requests, all time | 2 |
| robots.txt fetches | 2 |
Most requested paths:
/robots.txt(2)
Also run by OpenAI
- GPTBot | Trains AI models
- ChatGPT-User | User-requested fetches