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OAI-SearchBot

OAI-SearchBot is OpenAI's crawler. This crawler fetches pages to build a search or answer index.

Crawler facts

Operator	OpenAI
User agent token	`oai-searchbot`
Traffic type	Search index
Verification	UA + IP range
IP source	https://openai.com/searchbot.json

What "verified" means for OAI-SearchBot

For OAI-SearchBot, "verified" means DataSaaS compares the request IP against OpenAI's published ranges. A request carrying this user agent from any other IP is recorded as unverified.

Track it

OAI-SearchBot fetches raw HTML and never runs JavaScript, so no browser tag can see it. Install the DataSaaS server-side package to record every request and verify the ones that publish IP ranges.

Read the bot-traffic setup guide

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