Bot intelligence record
ChatGPT-User
Review firstChatGPT-User is an AI crawler from OpenAI used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval; it appears in server logs as `ChatGPT-User`.
User-Agent Pattern
OpenAIChatGPT-User
User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.
Robots.txt Snippet
Click snippet to copyUser-agent: ChatGPT-User
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Handling Guidance
DependsUse this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.
ChatGPT-User is used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- OpenAI
- Family
- OpenAI
- Type
- Ai
- Purpose
- Ai Assistant
- Identity type
- Official Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Last verified
- 2026-06-23
- Last checked
- 2026-06-23
- Source type
- Official
- Verification
- Verify ChatGPT-User by matching `ChatGPT-User` to OpenAI evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- IP ranges
- https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json
- Spoofing risk
- ChatGPT-User has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
Notes
- ChatGPT-User is an AI crawler from OpenAI used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
ChatGPT-User; related patterns includeOpenAI user fetcher; a representative HTTP user-agent isMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot. - ChatGPT-User is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
- ChatGPT-User has context-dependent robots.txt behavior because some requests may be user-triggered, product-triggered, or handled differently by the operator.
- ChatGPT-User should be handled according to the site owner’s AI crawler policy, with allow, block, or rate-limit rules applied deliberately.
Evidence and Source
- Verify ChatGPT-User by matching `ChatGPT-User` to OpenAI evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- ChatGPT-User traffic is primarily detected by the `ChatGPT-User` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `OpenAI user fetcher`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with OpenAI infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- ChatGPT-User is used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
- ChatGPT-User has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
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