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OAI-AdsBot

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OAI-AdsBot is a security scanner from OpenAI used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review; it appears in server logs as `OAI-AdsBot`.

Security Official Documented Confidence: High Verified: Yes robots.txt: Depends
Operator
OpenAI
Family
OpenAI
Type
Security
Source type
Official
Last checked
2026-06-23

User-Agent Pattern

OpenAI
OAI-AdsBot
Verification note

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

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User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

Depends

Use this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.

OAI-AdsBot is used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
OpenAI
Family
OpenAI
Type
Security
Purpose
Security
Identity type
Official Documented
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-06-23
Last checked
2026-06-23
Source type
Official
Verification
Verify OAI-AdsBot by matching `OAI-AdsBot` to OpenAI evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Spoofing risk
OAI-AdsBot has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.

Notes

  • OAI-AdsBot is a security scanner from OpenAI used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
  • Its primary user-agent pattern is OAI-AdsBot; related patterns include OpenAI Ads Bot; OAI AdsBot; ChatGPT Ads Bot; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot.
  • OAI-AdsBot is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
  • OAI-AdsBot has context-dependent robots.txt behavior because some requests may be user-triggered, product-triggered, or handled differently by the operator.
  • OAI-AdsBot should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.

Evidence and Source

  • Verify OAI-AdsBot by matching `OAI-AdsBot` to OpenAI evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
  • OAI-AdsBot traffic is primarily detected by the `OAI-AdsBot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `OpenAI Ads Bot; OAI AdsBot; ChatGPT Ads Bot`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with OpenAI infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
  • OAI-AdsBot is used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
  • OAI-AdsBot has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots

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