OAI-SearchBot
OpenAI · Feeds a search index
OAI-SearchBot surfaces websites in the results of ChatGPT's search features. OpenAI says a robots.txt change takes about 24 hours to reach it, and that a blocked site can still appear as a navigational link.
Fact sheet
- Operator
- OpenAI
- What it is for
- It crawls the web to build the index the assistant draws its answers from.
- Assistant it feeds
- ChatGPT
- Counts towards the Parsigo score
- Yes. It feeds the index of one of the assistants we measure.
- Official documentation
- developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- Official IP ranges
- JSON list
If you block it
You ask for your pages to be left out of the index the assistant (ChatGPT) draws its answers from.
Allow or block
A group of its own makes OAI-SearchBot ignore the “User-agent: *” rules. If you have Disallow lines there that should still apply to it, repeat them inside its group. To allow it, writing nothing is usually enough.
Allow
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: /
Block
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Disallow: /
Test it on your site
We run the diagnostic on your site and show you whether OAI-SearchBot can get in, with the robots.txt line that decides it. Free, no sign-up.
Worth knowing
Indexes content for ChatGPT search. Blocking this one does keep you out of the results.