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What is OAI-SearchBot?

OpenAI's crawler for ChatGPT search. It follows robots.txt and uses a separate token from GPTBot, so you can stay in search while refusing training.

robots.txt token: OAI-SearchBot
Operator: OpenAI
Purpose: Search
Obeys robots.txt: Yes The operator says it follows robots.txt.
Documented by operator: Yes, on the operator's own pages.
Published IP list: openai.com/searchbot.json
Documentation: platform.openai.com

Block OAI-SearchBot from your whole site

robots.txt

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

Allow it, but keep private paths out

robots.txt

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

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Sources

platform.openai.com/docs/bots