What is OAI-AdsBot?
OAI-AdsBot is listed as a ads safety crawler operated by OpenAI. Use this crawler profile to identify user-agent tokens, operator signals, platform hints, and recommended handling.
OAI-AdsBot
OpenAI · Ads safety crawler
- Version
- 1.0
- First seen
- Sep 17, 2025
- Confidence
- Known user-agent token
Crawler tags
Directory facts
- AI model training
- Not listed as training
- Acts on behalf of user
- No, system-triggered
- Obeys directives
- Unknown
What is OAI-AdsBot?
OAI-AdsBot is listed as a ads safety crawler operated by OpenAI. OAI-AdsBot is used by OpenAI to fetch ad landing pages for safety validation, policy checks, and relevance review.
OAI-AdsBot matched a known crawler token in the user-agent string, but this page alone does not prove IP ownership.
How to identify OAI-AdsBot in logs
Search server logs for OAI-AdsBot. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot
Use this as a web-crawler lookup reference for identifying how this user-agent presents itself in server logs.
User-agent signals
- Product tokens
- Mozilla/5.0, AppleWebKit/537.36, Gecko, OAI-AdsBot/1.0
- Documentation
- https://openai.com/adsbot
- Contact
- None found
- Platform
- Unknown · Unknown
- Browser profile
- Unknown · WebKit
- Browser-like UA
- Yes
- HTTP library
- Unknown
- Spoof risk
- Medium
Questions answered by this crawler profile
What is OAI-AdsBot?
OAI-AdsBot is listed as a ads safety crawler operated by OpenAI. OAI-AdsBot is used by OpenAI to fetch ad landing pages for safety validation, policy checks, and relevance review.
Does OAI-AdsBot train AI models?
OpenAI says OAI-AdsBot landing-page data is not used to train generative AI foundation models.
When does OAI-AdsBot visit a page?
OpenAI says OAI-AdsBot visits landing pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT to validate safety and help determine ad relevance.
How do I identify OAI-AdsBot in logs?
Search server logs for OAI-AdsBot. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Does OAI-AdsBot respect robots.txt?
Robots.txt behavior is not known from this directory entry. Confirm with operator documentation and your own request logs.