OAI-AdsBot

Operated by OpenAI · Checks pages submitted as ads

If you block it

Only relevant if your pages are submitted as ads on ChatGPT.

What OpenAI says it is for

Used to validate the safety of web pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT. It only visits pages submitted as ads, and the data is not used to train foundation models.

Published details

robots.txt: Operator publishes no documentation
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbotMatch on the prefix OAI-AdsBot/ 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/adsbot.json

Not addressed in the documentation

As of 2026年10月12日, OpenAI’s documentation does not address whether it respects robots.txt.

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