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GPTBot

Crawls web content to improve OpenAI's generative AI models and ChatGPT; respects 'robots.txt' directives to exclude sites from training data.
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What is GPTBot?

GPTBot is OpenAI's AI crawler. Crawls web content to improve OpenAI's generative AI models and ChatGPT; respects 'robots.txt' directives to exclude sites from training data.

GPTBot matters for AI visibility because the pages it collects can shape what large language models learn about your brand, products, and expertise. Allowing it can strengthen how accurately AI systems describe and recommend you, while disallowing it keeps your content out of training data. Either way, knowing GPTBot visits is the first step to managing how your brand shows up in AI search.

Tracking which AI crawlers and agents reach your site, and what they do once there, is the foundation of generative engine optimization. See our guides to AI crawlers and robots.txt to control automated access and protect your AI search visibility.

Promptwatch tracks GPTBot in real time from your server and CDN logs, so you can see exactly when it visits, which pages it requests, and how those crawls relate to citations. Learn more in AI crawler logs.

Track GPTBot with Promptwatch

Promptwatch classifies GPTBot (GPTBot) in real time from your server and CDN logs. See exactly when it visits, which pages it requests, the status codes it gets, and how those crawls map to AI citations. Requests are validated against the operator's published IP ranges to filter out spoofed user agents.

How to handle GPTBot

If you do not want GPTBot using your content for AI training, disallow it in robots.txt. If you are comfortable contributing to AI systems, leave it allowed.

To control GPTBot, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

GPTBot generally honors robots.txt directives.

Examples

  • A publisher reviews server logs, sees GPTBot requesting long-form articles, and decides whether to allow or disallow it in robots.txt.
  • A site owner adds a Disallow rule for GPTBot to keep premium guides out of AI training datasets.

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Frequently asked questions about GPTBot

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GPTBot is operated by OpenAI. It functions as OpenAI's AI crawler.

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