Is OAI-SearchBot blocked on your site?
Enter a domain to see whether its robots.txt lets GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler, or any of 14 other AI crawlers read the homepage.
Ask about another crawler:
- OAI-SearchBot
- ChatGPT-User
- GPTBot
- Claude-SearchBot
- Claude-User
- ClaudeBot
- PerplexityBot
- Perplexity-User
- Google-Extended
- Applebot-Extended
- Amazonbot
- DuckAssistBot
- Meta-ExternalAgent
- CCBot
- Bytespider
About OAI-SearchBot
OpenAI says it is used to surface websites in search results in ChatGPT's search features, and recommends allowing it for sites that want to appear there. Read the operator's documentation.
How to block or allow it
robots.txt rules are read per crawler: OAI-SearchBot follows a group that names it, or else the User-agent: * group. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /The AI crawler robots.txt generator makes these lines for any mix of crawlers. The check reads only your homepage path, robots.txt, llms.txt and a HEAD of llms-full.txt; see exactly what is fetched.