OpenAI SearchBot

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What is OpenAI SearchBot?

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OpenAI's crawler for search optimization

Operator

OpenAI

Documentationplatform.openai.com

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Expected Behavior

AI search indexers crawl websites to build an AI assistant's own search index. When someone asks the assistant a question, it searches this index to find pages to read and cite. Blocking an AI search indexer may keep your pages out of that assistant's search results. Assistants also find pages in other ways, so a blocked site may still be cited.

Should I Block OpenAI SearchBot?

This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.

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How Do I Block OpenAI SearchBot?

You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.

User Agent Tokens

OAI-SearchBotShould match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block OpenAI SearchBot

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

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