Scanners & probes
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
- Operator
- OpenAI
- Documentation
- developers.openai.com
- robots.txt token
OAI-AdsBot- Feeds
- security scan
- Follows robots.txt
- Not documentedDocs do not describe robots.txt behavior; it only visits pages submitted as ads.
- How to verify
- Published IP rangesopenai.com
- Names in our logs
oai-adsbot- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 2
- Days active
- 1 / 93
- First seen
- 21 Oct 2026
- Last seen
- 21 Oct 2026
New this weekother_bot
Identity check claimed vs verified
- No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- developers.openai.comdevelopers.openai.com/api/docs/bots