GPTBot
Crawls public web content to train future OpenAI models.
| Operator | OpenAI |
| Role | Training crawlerCrawls public content to train future AI models. Blocking it is a policy choice, not a visibility fix. |
| User agent token | GPTBot |
| robots.txt | The operator documents honouring robots.txt. |
| Operator docs | platform.openai.com |
Allow or block GPTBot in robots.txt
Add either rule to the robots.txt at your site root. robots.txt is a request, not a lock: this operator documents honouring it, so the rule is normally enough.
Allow
User-agent: GPTBot Allow: /
Block
User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: /
Other OpenAI crawlers
- ChatGPT-UserLive answer fetcher
- OAI-SearchBotAI search crawler
Is GPTBot allowed on your site right now?
The free checker reads your robots.txt and probes your site as each AI crawler, so you see the policy and the reality in one pass.