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GPTBot

Collects public web pages that may be used to train OpenAI's generative AI models. Blocking it keeps your content out of future training data; it does not affect ChatGPT search.

robots.txt name
GPTBot
User agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; GPTBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/gptbot
Category
Training crawlers: Collect public pages that may be used to train AI models.
Follows robots.txt
Yes
Official documentation
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
Published IP ranges
https://openai.com/gptbot.json

Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.

Block or allow it in robots.txt

Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

To allow it everywhere except one folder:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /private/

Is it really this bot?

Anyone can copy a user agent. To be sure a request comes from OpenAI, compare its IP address with the ranges the company publishes.

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