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OAI-SearchBot

OpenAI search bot, purpose: search.

The OAI-SearchBot record on Rattlesnakes By Mail is the full published file on OAI-SearchBot, a search_bot from OpenAI. Each fact on the OAI-SearchBot 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.

76
requests to this site from OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08
100%
of requests verified against OpenAI's published identity

OAI-SearchBot 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 OAI-SearchBot; the busiest day was 2026-09-22 with 5 requests, 2 times the typical day.

Requests per day from AI crawlersStacked columns of daily requests from OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08. On a typical day the site logs about 3 requests from OAI-SearchBot; the busiest day was 2026-09-22 with 5 requests, 2 times the typical day.Requests per day0246Sep 13Sep 21Sep 30Oct 8OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-13: 1 request (day total 1)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-14: 2 requests (day total 2)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-16: 2 requests (day total 2)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-18: 3 requests (day total 3)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-19: 2 requests (day total 2)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-20: 4 requests (day total 4)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-21: 2 requests (day total 2)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-22: 5 requests (day total 5)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-23: 2 requests (day total 2)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-24: 5 requests (day total 5)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-25: 4 requests (day total 4)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-26: 3 requests (day total 3)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-27: 5 requests (day total 5)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-28: 3 requests (day total 3)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-29: 3 requests (day total 3)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-30: 3 requests (day total 3)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-01: 3 requests (day total 3)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-02: 4 requests (day total 4)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-03: 2 requests (day total 2)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-04: 5 requests (day total 5)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-05: 2 requests (day total 2)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-06: 3 requests (day total 3)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-07: 3 requests (day total 3)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-08: 5 requests (day total 5)Sep 22: 5
Requests per day from OAI-SearchBot, 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
search_bot
purpose
search
ua_token
OAI-SearchBot
robots_token
OAI-SearchBot
ip_list_url
https://openai.com/searchbot.json
docs_url
https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots
status
active

Surfaces web pages in ChatGPT search results.

Claims

FieldValueMethodConfidence
observed_arrival_before_sitemapyesobserved_heremedium
cites_sourcesyesvendor_docmedium
honours_crawl_delaynot_documentedvendor_docn/a
publishes_ip_listyesvendor_dochigh
purpose_documentedsearchvendor_dochigh
reads_llms_txtnot_documentedvendor_docn/a
respects_robots_txtyesvendor_dochigh
separate_search_and_training_tokensyesvendor_dochigh
user_agent_string_fullMozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/searchbotvendor_dochigh
verifiable_by_rdnsnot_documentedvendor_docn/a

Observations

Requests per day from OAI-SearchBotRequests per day from OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08. OAI-SearchBot made 76 requests in this window.OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08: 76 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-13: 1 requestOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-14: 2 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-15: 0 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-16: 2 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-17: 0 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-18: 3 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-19: 2 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-20: 4 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-21: 2 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-22: 5 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-23: 2 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-24: 5 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-25: 4 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-26: 3 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-27: 5 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-28: 3 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-29: 3 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-30: 3 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-01: 3 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-02: 4 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-03: 2 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-04: 5 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-05: 2 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-06: 3 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-07: 3 requestsOAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-08: 5 requests5
Requests per day from OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08. OAI-SearchBot made 76 requests in this window.
requests, last 30 days
76
verified requests, last 30 days
76
verified share, last 30 days
100%
daily rows recorded
24

Changes

DateClaimKindOld valueNew value
2026-09-17observed_arrival_before_sitemapnewyes
2026-09-13respects_robots_txtnewyes
2026-09-13honours_crawl_delaynewnot_documented
2026-09-13publishes_ip_listnewyes
2026-09-13verifiable_by_rdnsnewnot_documented
2026-09-13purpose_documentednewsearch
2026-09-13separate_search_and_training_tokensnewyes
2026-09-13cites_sourcesnewyes
2026-09-13reads_llms_txtnewnot_documented
2026-09-13user_agent_string_fullnewMozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/searchbot

Notes

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