AI search & answer engines
ChatGPT-User
Fetches web pages for user-initiated actions in ChatGPT, Custom GPTs and GPT Actions; not an automatic crawler and not used to decide Search eligibility.
Dossier
- Operator
- OpenAI
- Documentation
- developers.openai.com
- robots.txt token
ChatGPT-User- Feeds
- live answer fetch
- Follows robots.txt
- Partly, per its documentationDocs: because actions are user-initiated, robots.txt rules may not apply.
- How to verify
- Published IP rangesopenai.com
- Names in our logs
chatgpt-user- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 812
- Days active
- 78 / 93
- First seen
- 23 Jul 2026
- Last seen
- 23 Oct 2026
Regularai_user_agent
Identity check claimed vs verified
- verified70 reqofficial cidr
- claimed unverified1 reqofficial cidr
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- Content pages22
- Feeds & discovery1
- Machine-consumption0
22 unique materials · 4 canonical pages
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- developers.openai.comdevelopers.openai.com/api/docs/bots