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OAI-AdsBot

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OAI-AdsBot is used to validate the safety of web pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT. Operated by OpenAI.

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Assessment
Advertising & Marketing
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is OAI-AdsBot?

OAI-AdsBot is a web crawler operated by OpenAI. OAI-AdsBot is used to validate the safety of web pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT.

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

Identification

Bot name
OAI-AdsBot
Operator
OpenAI
Category
Advertising & Marketing
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
oai-adsbot
User-agent patterns
OAI-AdsBot
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot
Main use cases
Web crawlingData collection

Why it crawls your site

OAI-AdsBot crawls websites to collect data for advertising and marketing purposes. It is operated by OpenAI as part of their advertising infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow OAI-AdsBot

Block it

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

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

Ensure your robots.txt allows OAI-AdsBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to OpenAI's documentation.

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Data sources

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Last updated July 21, 2026