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OAI-SearchBot

Usually allow

OAI-SearchBot is an AI search crawler from OpenAI used for AI search indexing, answer retrieval, citation discovery; it appears in server logs as `OAI-SearchBot`.

Ai Ai Search Official Documented Confidence: High Verified: Yes robots.txt: Yes
Operator
OpenAI
Family
OpenAI
Type
Ai
Source type
Official
Last checked
2026-05-20

User-Agent Pattern

OpenAI
OAI-SearchBot
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-SearchBot
Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

Depends

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.

OAI-SearchBot is used for AI search indexing, answer retrieval, citation discovery, and page freshness checks.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
OpenAI
Family
OpenAI
Type
Ai
Purpose
Ai Search
Identity type
Official Documented
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-05-20
Last checked
2026-05-20
Source type
Official
Verification
Verify OAI-SearchBot by matching `OAI-SearchBot` to OpenAI evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
IP ranges
https://openai.com/searchbot.json
Spoofing risk
OAI-SearchBot has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.

Notes

  • OAI-SearchBot is an AI search crawler from OpenAI used for AI search indexing, answer retrieval, citation discovery, and page freshness checks.
  • Its primary user-agent pattern is OAI-SearchBot; related patterns include OpenAI search bot; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/searchbot.
  • OAI-SearchBot is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
  • OAI-SearchBot is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
  • OAI-SearchBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.

Evidence and Source

  • Verify OAI-SearchBot by matching `OAI-SearchBot` to OpenAI evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
  • OAI-SearchBot traffic is primarily detected by the `OAI-SearchBot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `OpenAI search bot`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/searchbot`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with OpenAI infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
  • OAI-SearchBot is used for AI search indexing, answer retrieval, citation discovery, and page freshness checks.
  • OAI-SearchBot 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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