OAI-AdsBot
AI search indexerOpenAI's crawler for checking the pages that ads link to. It only visits pages submitted as ads, and OpenAI states the fetched content is not used for model training. OpenAI does not state whether it obeys robots.txt.
| Operator | OpenAI |
| Type | AI search indexer |
| Respects robots.txt | Not documented |
| Documentation | Official operator documentation |
OAI-AdsBot user-agent string
This is how OAI-AdsBot identifies itself in your server logs:
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbotHow to block OAI-AdsBot in robots.txt
Add this to the robots.txt file at the root of your site:
Block OAI-AdsBot
User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Disallow: /Explicitly allow OAI-AdsBot
User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Allow: /What blocking changes: A robots.txt rule may stop ad landing page checks for ads that point at your site, but OpenAI does not document whether this bot honors it.
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