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OAI-AdsBot

by OpenAI

AI answers AI UA + IP range

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

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

What it usually means

A person asked an AI assistant a question, and it fetched this URL to answer.

How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

oai-adsbot

robots.txt stanza

User-agent: OAI-AdsBot

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Verify a OAI-AdsBot request Check if your site allows OAI-AdsBot

How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Sep 4, 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 OAI-AdsBot

Sources

OpenAI crawler docs

More from OpenAI

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

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

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

Similar bots

User-triggered Amazon fetches for fresh answers in products such as Alexa.

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

User-triggered Microsoft Copilot fetches for AI answers.

DuckDuckGo real-time crawler for AI-assisted answers with citations.

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