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GPTBot

by OpenAI

AI training AI UA + IP range

Collects pages in bulk to train a model, unconnected to any individual user's question.

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

What it usually means

OpenAI crawled this page as potential training data. This is the crawler most sites choose to allow or block deliberately.

How to identify it

User-Agent tokens
gptbot
robots.txt stanza
User-agent: GPTBot

How it's verified

Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Jul 20, 2026
132.196.86.0/24172.182.202.0/25172.182.204.0/24172.182.207.0/25172.182.214.0/24172.182.215.0/2420.125.66.80/2820.171.206.0/2420.171.207.0/244.227.36.0/25

6 IP sources configured

OpenAI's page for GPTBot

Sources

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