What is OAI-AdsBot?
OAI-AdsBot is a ads safety 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
- Jun 16, 2026
- Confidence
- Known user-agent token
Crawler tags
What is OAI-AdsBot?
OAI-AdsBot is a ads safety 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. After you identify crawler traffic, run the WebMCP Compatibility Checker to confirm whether AI crawlers and agents can understand your site.
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 used by OpenAI to fetch ad landing pages for safety validation, policy checks, and relevance review.
Who operates OAI-AdsBot?
OAI-AdsBot is associated with OpenAI.
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.
Should I allow OAI-AdsBot?
Verify IP ownership or behavior before making security decisions because user-agent strings can be spoofed. Allow it if you submit ad landing pages to the operator and want those pages reviewed, and keep normal access controls in place for sensitive URLs.
Does OAI-AdsBot respect robots.txt?
Robots.txt compliance cannot be proven from a user-agent string alone. Check the crawler operator documentation and your own logs before assuming behavior.