chatgpt-user
GoodBotCommunity-sourcedA user-agent identifier used by OpenAI to distinguish traffic originating from ChatGPT users interacting with live websites via browsing features. Operated by OpenAI.
What is chatgpt-user?
The chatgpt-user agent is utilized by OpenAI to identify requests made when a ChatGPT user triggers the 'Browse with Bing' or similar web-access features. Unlike automated crawlers that index the web for training or search, this agent acts as a proxy for a specific user session, allowing the model to fetch current content to answer a user's prompt. It is a verified identifier that respects standard web protocols and site-level instructions.
Identification
Why it crawls your site
This agent crawls websites to provide ChatGPT users with up-to-date information that is not present in the model's static training data. It retrieves page content to summarize, analyze, or answer questions based on the specific URL provided by the user. Site administrators can verify this traffic by checking that the requests originate from OpenAI's verified IP ranges and respect the robots.txt directives defined for the GPTBot and chatgpt-user agents.
IP ranges
Requests from chatgpt-user originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
Block or allow chatgpt-user
Add a Disallow rule for chatgpt-user in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block chatgpt-user from crawling your entire site User-agent: chatgpt-user Disallow: / # Allow chatgpt-user full access User-agent: chatgpt-user Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows chatgpt-user. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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