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title: "What is ChatGPT-User? OpenAI's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "User-triggered fetches when ChatGPT opens a page to answer a person. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/chatgpt-user
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# ChatGPT-User

by OpenAI

AI answers AI UA + signature

Fetches a page when a user asks an assistant to answer with fresh web context.

User-triggered fetches when ChatGPT opens a page to answer a person.

## What it usually means

A person asked an AI assistant a question, and the assistant fetched this URL to answer with fresh context or citations.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`chatgpt-user`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: ChatGPT-User`

Free tools

[Verify a ChatGPT-User request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=chatgpt-user) [Check if your site allows ChatGPT-User](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

## How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

-   [https://openai.com/gptbot.json](https://openai.com/gptbot.json)
-   [https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json](https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json)
-   [https://openai.com/searchbot.json](https://openai.com/searchbot.json)
-   [https://openai.com/adsbot.json](https://openai.com/adsbot.json)
-   [https://openai.com/chatgpt-connectors.json](https://openai.com/chatgpt-connectors.json)
-   [https://openai.com/chatgpt-agents.json](https://openai.com/chatgpt-agents.json)

Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Sep 4, 2026

`132.196.86.0/24``172.182.202.0/25``172.182.204.0/24``172.182.207.0/25``172.182.214.0/24``172.182.215.0/24``20.125.66.80/28``20.171.206.0/24``20.171.207.0/24``4.227.36.0/25`

6 IP sources configured

[OpenAI's page for ChatGPT-User](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots)

## Sources

-   [OpenAI crawler docs](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots)
-   [Published IP ranges](https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json)

## More from OpenAI

[

OAI-SearchBot

OpenAI crawler that builds the search index behind ChatGPT's web results.

](/bot-directory/oai-searchbot)[

OAI-AdsBot

OAI-AdsBot is an AI-related crawler operated by OpenAI.

](/bot-directory/oai-adsbot)[

GPTBot

OpenAI crawler for collecting public content that may improve future models.

](/bot-directory/gptbot)

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Copilot

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DuckAssistBot

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