# Observed: OAI-SearchBot

Daily request counts and verified share for OAI-SearchBot.

The OAI-SearchBot observation record on Rattlesnakes By Mail counts every request that Rattlesnakes By Mail logged from OAI-SearchBot, day by day. Each daily row states the request count, the share of requests whose identity matched the vendor's published IP ranges or reverse DNS, and the formats served. A row appears only after Rattlesnakes By Mail logged at least one request from OAI-SearchBot. Raw per-request rows are never exported, and every IP address is hashed with SHA-256 salted by the date before storage.

76 requests to this site from OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08. 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 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.

An unverified request is a request whose source IP address was outside the vendor's published ranges and whose reverse DNS did not resolve to the vendor; an unverified request is not proof of spoofing.

Today: 13 requests, 13 verified.

## Summary, last 30 days

requests: 76
verified requests: 76
verified share (request-weighted): 100%
formats requested: txt
first seen: 2026-09-13
last seen: 2026-10-08

## Daily rollup

Requests per day from OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08. OAI-SearchBot made 76 requests in this window.

| Date | Requests | Verified share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-08 | 5 | 100% |
| 2026-10-07 | 3 | 100% |
| 2026-10-06 | 3 | 100% |
| 2026-10-05 | 2 | 100% |
| 2026-10-04 | 5 | 100% |
| 2026-10-03 | 2 | 100% |
| 2026-10-02 | 4 | 100% |
| 2026-10-01 | 3 | 100% |
| 2026-09-30 | 3 | 100% |
| 2026-09-29 | 3 | 100% |
| 2026-09-28 | 3 | 100% |
| 2026-09-27 | 5 | 100% |
| 2026-09-26 | 3 | 100% |
| 2026-09-25 | 4 | 100% |
| 2026-09-24 | 5 | 100% |
| 2026-09-23 | 2 | 100% |
| 2026-09-22 | 5 | 100% |
| 2026-09-21 | 2 | 100% |
| 2026-09-20 | 4 | 100% |
| 2026-09-19 | 2 | 100% |
| 2026-09-18 | 3 | 100% |
| 2026-09-16 | 2 | 100% |
| 2026-09-14 | 2 | 100% |
| 2026-09-13 | 1 | 100% |