Overview
OAI-AdsBot is operated by OpenAI for ChatGPT Ads landing-page validation and review.
The crawler uses the OAI-AdsBot identity. OpenAI publishes a dedicated adsbot.json network file that can be used to corroborate source addresses.
OpenAI states that its crawlers follow robots.txt rules. A site that needs advertisement review should allow OAI-AdsBot to access the relevant landing-page paths.
Verify both the declared token and the current operator-published network data before treating a request as authentic.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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OAI-AdsBot - Aliases
- OpenAI Ads Bot; OAI AdsBot; ChatGPT Ads Bot
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot - Robots Token
- OAI-AdsBot
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the `OAI-AdsBot` token and corroborate the source address against OpenAI’s current `adsbot.json` network file.
Classification
- Type
- Advertising
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- OpenAI
- Purpose
- Landing page validation
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Validates and reviews web landing pages submitted for ChatGPT Ads.
- Detection Notes
- Use the exact `OAI-AdsBot` token and current operator-published network ranges. Do not rely on a copied user-agent string alone.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- Low when the source address matches OpenAI’s current published network ranges; high when identified only by user agent.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Do not block
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# This rule may not apply to user-triggered or special-purpose requests. User-agent: OAI-AdsBot Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- OpenAI Checked 2026-08-07
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.