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chatgpt-user

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

ChatGPT-User is for user actions in ChatGPT and Custom GPTs. When users ask ChatGPT or a CustomGPT a question, it may visit a web page to help answer and include a link to the source in its response. Operated by OpenAI.

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Assessment

AI Assistant

What is chatgpt-user?

ChatGPT-User is a web crawler operated by OpenAI. ChatGPT-User is for user actions in ChatGPT and Custom GPTs. When users ask ChatGPT or a CustomGPT a question, it may visit a web page to help answer and include a link to the source in its response.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

chatgpt-user

Operator

OpenAI

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

One or two isolated anecdotes from individual site owners

Reddit discussion

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

ChatGPT-User crawls websites to collect and process web content. It is operated by OpenAI as part of their web crawling infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

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.

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Block or allow chatgpt-user

Block it

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: /