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Free OAI-SearchBot Checker

OAI-SearchBot is OpenAI's dedicated search crawler — separate from GPTBot — used to fetch pages for ChatGPT search results. Enter your URL and we parse your robots.txt to show whether OAI-SearchBot is allowed, blocked, or missing a rule entirely.

robots.txt token: OAI-SearchBot Recommended stance: Allow / for public pages IP verification: openai.com/searchbot.json

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About this tool

OAI-SearchBot is OpenAI's dedicated search crawler — separate from GPTBot — used to fetch pages for ChatGPT search results. Enter your URL and we parse your robots.txt to show whether OAI-SearchBot is allowed, blocked, or missing a rule entirely.

Verify OAI-SearchBot can access your site — OpenAI's crawler for ChatGPT search indexing and real-time citations in conversational answers.

What we check

In your free report

  • OAI-SearchBot User-agent rules in robots.txt
  • Homepage path allow/disallow status for OAI-SearchBot
  • Conflicts with blanket User-agent: * Disallow rules
robots.txt token OAI-SearchBot
Recommended stance Allow / for public pages
IP verification openai.com/searchbot.json
Best practices

Recommendations from official docs

Required for ChatGPT search citations

OpenAI states sites that opt out of OAI-SearchBot will not be shown in ChatGPT search answers. Allow it on pages you want surfaced and linked.

Independent from GPTBot

You can allow OAI-SearchBot for search visibility while blocking GPTBot for training — each setting is documented as independent by OpenAI.

Track referral traffic

ChatGPT search adds utm_source=chatgpt.com to outbound links. Monitor this in Google Analytics to measure AI-driven visits.

Ensure CDN does not block the bot

WAF bot management may block OAI-SearchBot despite robots.txt Allow. Whitelist openai.com/searchbot.json IP ranges if needed.

How to fix

Step-by-step action plan

  1. 1 Add or update User-agent: OAI-SearchBot with Allow: / for public content.
  2. 2 Remove conflicting Disallow: / under User-agent: * if it overrides search bot access.
  3. 3 Publish clear titles, descriptions, and structured data to improve snippet quality.
  4. 4 Add llms.txt to help AI systems understand your site structure quickly.
  5. 5 Re-check after 24 hours and monitor chatgpt.com referrals in analytics.
Official references

Learn more from the source

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Questions about this tool

What is OAI-SearchBot?

OpenAI's robots.txt user-agent associated with search and retrieval products such as ChatGPT search experiences.

Is OAI-SearchBot the same as GPTBot?

No. They are separate tokens in robots.txt and can be controlled independently.