---
schema_version: "newruntime-reader-dossiers-v1"
type: "reader_dossier"
slug: "oai-adsbot"
kind: "scanner"
operator: "OpenAI"
researched_at: "2026-10-23"
confidence: "high"
json_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/oai-adsbot.json"
canonical_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/oai-adsbot/"
---

# OAI-AdsBot

> Validates the safety of landing pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT; only visits pages submitted as ads and its data is not used for model training.

## Dossier

- Kind: Scanners & probes
- Operator: OpenAI (https://openai.com/)
- Documentation: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- robots.txt tokens: OAI-AdsBot
- Feeds: security scan
- Respects robots.txt: Not documented. Docs do not describe robots.txt behavior; it only visits pages submitted as ads.
- Verification: Published IP ranges (https://openai.com/adsbot.json)
- Labels matched in our logs: oai-adsbot

## Why it matters to New Runtime (our interpretation)

New Runtime runs no ChatGPT ads, so genuine OAI-AdsBot visits are unexpected — treat hits as spoofing or a misrouted ad URL.

## Observed behaviour

- Baseline 2026-10-23 (93-day window): 2 requests on 1 days; first seen 2026-10-21, last seen 2026-10-21; New this week.
- Live numbers: https://newruntime.com/bot-traffic-history.json and https://newruntime.com/crawler-journeys.json

## Sources

- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots

Identity: A family name is what a client claims in its user agent. It is verified only when its request came from the operator's published IP ranges or passed forward-confirmed reverse DNS, as reported per family in /crawler-journeys.json. Anyone can claim any name.

All dossiers: https://newruntime.com/readers.md