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Grade AR-009Access and crawlers

OpenAI AdsBot

OAI-AdsBot is a separate OpenAI crawler from GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot: it only visits landing pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT, to check they comply with OpenAI's policies and to judge when the ad is most relevant to show, and OpenAI states the data it collects is not used to train generative AI foundation models. It has its own user agent (OAI-AdsBot/1.0) and published IP list (openai.com/adsbot.json).

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    OpenAI · 2026Overview of OpenAI Crawlers (OAI-AdsBot)developers.openai.com

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