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OAI-SearchBot/1.4

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OAI-SearchBot/1.4 is a web crawler designed to enhance the discovery and indexing of information across various online platforms. This bot efficiently scans and retrieves content from websites, enabling more comprehensive search results for users. By utilizing advanced algorithms, it ensures that the indexed information is relevant and up-to-date, facilitating improved search experiences. The bot respects website protocols and adheres to guidelines set by webmasters, promoting ethical web crawling practices. For more detailed insights, you may refer to the official OpenAI source on SearchBot.

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Bot name
OAI-SearchBot/1.4
Category
Uncategorized
Verification
Community-sourced
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

IP ranges

Requests from OAI-SearchBot/1.4 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.

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Block or allow OAI-SearchBot/1.4

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for 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 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 OAI-SearchBot/1.4 from crawling your entire site
User-agent: 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
Disallow: /

# Allow OAI-SearchBot/1.4 full access
User-agent: 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
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows 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. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

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openai.com/searchbot
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Last updated September 8, 2026

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