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oai-searchbot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

OAI-SearchBot is used to link to and surface websites in search results in the SearchGPT prototype Operated by OpenAI.

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Assessment

Search Engine Crawler

What is oai-searchbot?

OAI-SearchBot is a web crawler operated by OpenAI. OAI-SearchBot is used to link to and surface websites in search results in the SearchGPT prototype

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

Identification

Bot name

oai-searchbot

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

Some reports found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

Some reports found

How widely people complain

Several independent site owners report the same problem

Reddit discussion

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

What we read

Why it crawls your site

OAI-SearchBot crawls websites to index and analyze web content for AI-powered search results. It is operated by OpenAI as part of their AI-powered search infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from oai-searchbot 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

Block it

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

# Allow OAI-SearchBot full access
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /