AI crawler directory
What is ChatGPT-User?
Last verified
Fetches a page when a user asks ChatGPT or a Custom GPT something, or uses a GPT Action. OpenAI says it is not used to crawl the web automatically and not used to decide whether content may appear in ChatGPT search; that is OAI-SearchBot.
ChatGPT-User at a glance
- Operator
- OpenAI
- Kind
- Fetcher: requests a page when a user asks
- Used for
- User-triggered fetch
- Feeds
- ChatGPT; Custom GPTs; GPT Actions
- robots.txt token
ChatGPT-User- User agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot
- Follows robots.txt
- Not always. OpenAI: because these actions are initiated by a user, robots.txt rules may not apply.
- Runs JavaScript
- Not documented by the operator
- Published IP ranges
- chatgpt-user.json: https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.jsonCheck an address against these ranges
- Official source
- Overview of OpenAI Crawlershttps://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- Verified
Every AI crawler in one table
ChatGPT-User is one of 29 crawlers and fetchers in the AI crawler directory, each checked against its operator's own documentation.