What is OAI-SearchBot?
OAI-SearchBot is a search/index operated by OpenAI. Use this crawler profile to identify user-agent tokens, operator signals, platform hints, and recommended handling.
OAI-SearchBot
OpenAI · Search/index
- Version
- 1.4
- First seen
- May 20, 2026
- Last seen
- May 24, 2026
- Confidence
- Known user-agent token
What is OAI-SearchBot?
OAI-SearchBot is a search/index operated by OpenAI. OAI-SearchBot is likely used by OpenAI to discover, crawl, and index public web pages.
OAI-SearchBot matched a known crawler token in the user-agent string, but this page alone does not prove IP ownership.
How to identify OAI-SearchBot in logs
Search server logs for OAI-SearchBot. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/searchbot
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, Macintosh, Intel, Mac, OS, AppleWebKit/537.36, Gecko, Chrome/131.0.0.0
- Documentation
- https://openai.com/searchbot
- Contact
- None found
- Platform
- macOS · Desktop
- Browser profile
- Chrome · Blink
- Browser-like UA
- Yes
- HTTP library
- Unknown
- Spoof risk
- Medium
Questions answered by this crawler profile
What is OAI-SearchBot?
OAI-SearchBot is likely used by OpenAI to discover, crawl, and index public web pages.
Who operates OAI-SearchBot?
OAI-SearchBot is associated with OpenAI.
How do I identify OAI-SearchBot in logs?
Search server logs for OAI-SearchBot. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Should I allow OAI-SearchBot?
Verify IP ownership or behavior before making security decisions because user-agent strings can be spoofed. Allow it if you want this crawler to discover public pages, and use robots.txt or rate limits for policy control.
Does OAI-SearchBot 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.