# GPTBot

OpenAI crawler, purpose: training.

The GPTBot record on Rattlesnakes By Mail is the full published file on GPTBot, a crawler from OpenAI. Each fact on the GPTBot record is a dated claim with a verbatim quote from OpenAI, a source URL, a verification method and a confidence. Sections run in a fixed order: Identity, Claims, Observations, Changes, Questions, Notes.

2,314 requests to this site from GPTBot, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08. GPTBot is OpenAI's crawler. The chart counts the pages it read on this site, day by day. On a typical day the site logs about 3 requests from GPTBot; the busiest day was 2026-09-24 with 1,101 requests, 367 times the typical day. Requests per day from GPTBot, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08. Source: this site's own request logs, each request checked against the vendor's published identity. Method: /method.

## Identity

vendor: OpenAI
kind: crawler
purpose: training
ua_token: GPTBot
robots_token: GPTBot
ip_list_url: https://openai.com/gptbot.json
docs_url: https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots
status: active

Crawls public web content for OpenAI model training.

## Claims

| Field | Value | Method | Confidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| honours_crawl_delay | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | vendor_doc | high |
| purpose_documented | training | vendor_doc | high |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | vendor_doc | high |
| robots_txt_fetch_marker | yes | vendor_doc | high |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | yes | vendor_doc | high |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; GPTBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/gptbot | vendor_doc | high |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |

## Observations

Requests per day from GPTBot, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08. GPTBot made 2,314 requests in this window.

requests, last 30 days: 2314
verified requests, last 30 days: 2310
verified share, last 30 days: 100%
daily rows recorded: 20

## Changes

| Date | Claim | Kind | Old value | New value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-09-13 | respects_robots_txt | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | honours_crawl_delay | new |  | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | publishes_ip_list | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | verifiable_by_rdns | new |  | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | purpose_documented | new |  | training |
| 2026-09-13 | separate_search_and_training_tokens | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | user_agent_string_full | new |  | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; GPTBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/gptbot |
| 2026-09-13 | robots_txt_fetch_marker | new |  | yes |

## Notes

No published notes for this entity yet.

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Every claimed field for GPTBot is documented at /fields.

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