OAI-SearchBot

Last updated 20 hours ago.

What is OAI-SearchBot?

About

OAI-SearchBot is used to create an index of websites that can be surfaced as results in OpenAI's SearchGPT product.

You can set up agent analytics to see when OAI-SearchBot visits your website.

Detail

Operator	OpenAI
Documentation	https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots

Type

AI Search Crawler

Indexes web content for AI-powered search results

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.

Insights

OAI-SearchBot Visiting Your Website

Half of your traffic probably comes from artificial agents, and there are more of them every day. Track their activity with the API or WordPress plugin.

Set Up Agent Analytics

Other Websites

6% of top websites are blocking OAI-SearchBot

Learn How →

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.

Using Robots.txt

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

User Agent Token	Description
`OAI-SearchBot`	Should match instances of OAI-SearchBot

# robots.txt
# This should block OAI-SearchBot

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt