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Bot IP: 74.7.228.36

Bot Name: Open AI Search Bot
OpenAI Search Bot (identified as oai-searchbot) is a web crawler run by OpenAI. It scans public websites to discover and index content for OpenAI’s search and AI systems, similar to how traditional search engine bots work, and follows standard rules like robots.txt.
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Track-A-Bot Trust Score: 55/100
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Identity

  • ✅ Marked as bot traffic
  • ✅ Bot name present
  • ✅ User-agent matches bot name
  • ✅ User-agent includes identity link/email

Hostname

  • ⚠️ No hostname observed
  • ℹ️ Hostname does not resemble bot name
  • ℹ️ Hostname status not verified
  • ✅ No hostname mismatch flags

Behavior

  • ✅ Requested /robots.txt
  • ✅ No referrer (typical crawler behavior)
  • ✅ Mostly 200/304 responses
  • 📌 Visits: 1
  • ⏱️ Age: 0h

Penalties

  • ✅ No major spoof pattern
  • ✅ No fingerprint fields
  • ✅ Cookies not enabled
  • ✅ No connection type
Total visits: 1 First seen: Nov 13th, 2025 12:30 AM Last seen: Nov 13th, 2025 12:30 AM
Known User Agent(s)
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.3; robots.txt; +https://openai.com/searchbot
Known Accepted Encoding(s)
gzip, br, deflate

Common User-Agent Tokens

These are identifiers found inside user-agent strings we observed for oai-searchbot.

Token
Seen
First seen
Last seen
oai-searchbot/1.0
5,705
11/21/24
12/12/25
oai-searchbot/1.0 5,705 seen
First 11/21/24
Last 12/12/25
10_15_7
4,975
1/23/25
12/12/25
10_15_7 4,975 seen
First 1/23/25
Last 12/12/25
oai-searchbot/1.3
136
11/11/25
12/12/25
oai-searchbot/1.3 136 seen
First 11/11/25
Last 12/12/25
robots.txt
103
10/25/25
12/12/25
robots.txt 103 seen
First 10/25/25
Last 12/12/25

Identity Links

These are URLs we observed in association with oai-searchbot (often used as an identity, help, or policy link).

URL
Seen
First seen
Last seen
openai.com/searchbot
5,841
11/21/24
12/12/25
openai.com/searchbot 5,841 seen openai.com
First 11/21/24
Last 12/12/25

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