ChatGPT-User

Operated by OpenAI · Fetches when a user asks

If you block it

A disallow may not stop it: OpenAI says robots.txt rules may not apply, because the request came from a person.

What OpenAI says it is for

Not used for crawling the web in an automatic fashion. It fetches a page because a person in ChatGPT asked something that needs it, or through a custom GPT or GPT Action.

Published details

robots.txt: Says robots.txt may not apply“robots.txt rules may not apply”
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/botMatch on the prefix ChatGPT-User/ rather than the whole string: operators version these, and an exact match stops working on the next release.
Verification: Published address list: https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json

Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots Read 2026年10月12日.