OAI-SearchBot

What is OAI-SearchBot?

About

OAI-SearchBot is OpenAI's web crawler that indexes websites for SearchGPT, collecting and analyzing web content to power AI-driven search results and real-time information retrieval in OpenAI's search applications. You can see how often OAI-SearchBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

AI search crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on many factors, and can even happen on-demand in response to a user query.

Type

AI Search Crawler
Indexes web content for AI-powered search results

Detail

Operated By OpenAI
Last Updated 7 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

8%
8% of top websites are blocking OAI-SearchBot
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Country of Origin

United States
OAI-SearchBot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Search Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Shopping
Autos and Vehicles
Games
Reference
Business and Industrial
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Robots.txt

Should I Block OAI-SearchBot?

Probably not. AI search crawlers power AI search engines, which are a useful way for users to discover your website. AI search engine assistants usually cite their sources and provide links to their results.

How Do I Block OAI-SearchBot?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block OAI-SearchBot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String 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/1.0; +https://openai.com/searchbot 
# robots.txt
# This should block OAI-SearchBot

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

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