AI search & answer engines
OAI-SearchBot
OpenAI's search crawler that surfaces and links websites in ChatGPT search features; not used for model training.
Dossier
- Operator
- OpenAI
- Documentation
- developers.openai.com
- robots.txt token
OAI-SearchBot- Feeds
- search index
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes, per its documentationSites opted out are not shown in ChatGPT search answers (may still appear as navigational links); changes take ~24h.
- How to verify
- Published IP rangesopenai.com
- Names in our logs
openai searchbotoai-searchbot- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 4,407
- Days active
- 86 / 93
- First seen
- 23 Jul 2026
- Last seen
- 23 Oct 2026
Regularai_crawler
Identity check claimed vs verified
- verified2,904 reqofficial cidr
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- Content pages1,619
- Feeds & discovery730
- Machine-consumption708
557 unique materials · 26 canonical pages
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- developers.openai.comdevelopers.openai.com/api/docs/bots