OpenAI · Other

OAI-AdsBot

Identify OAI-AdsBot by its user agent. Check request identity, review robots.txt controls and track visits in Aiola Analytics.

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Key facts

User-agent token: OAI-AdsBot
Other: Fetched for ads or link previews rather than answering, indexing, or training.
OpenAI publishes official IP ranges; verify requests against them.

What OAI-AdsBot is

OAI-AdsBot visits landing pages submitted as ChatGPT ads to check safety and determine ad relevance. Its collected data is not used to train generative AI foundation models.

In Aiola's taxonomy, Other means fetched for ads or link previews rather than answering, indexing, or training.

OAI-AdsBot user agent

Look for the match token inside the complete HTTP User-Agent header. Tokens can be spoofed, so use the network checks below for authentication.

Full example User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot
Case-insensitive match token
OAI-AdsBot

Official IP ranges

OpenAI publishes an official IP range list. This cached snapshot contains 2 CIDR prefixes, last fetched 2026-10-23. Open the live source

Official IP range snapshot
130.131.229.128/25
20.168.90.128/25

Verify a OAI-AdsBot request

For OAI-AdsBot, compare the source IP from your trusted edge or server against OpenAI’s current published prefixes.

Test one CIDR in Python (replace REQUEST_IP)
python3 -c 'import ipaddress; print(ipaddress.ip_address("REQUEST_IP") in ipaddress.ip_network("130.131.229.128/25"))'

Test every current prefix in the vendor feed and re-fetch it regularly. This cached snapshot is evidence of publication, not a permanent firewall list.

Control OAI-AdsBot with robots.txt

OpenAI documents crawler controls for this bot family. Robots.txt can direct cooperative crawling, but it cannot prove that a request is authentic.

Allow OAI-AdsBot
User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Allow: /
Block OAI-AdsBot
User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Disallow: /

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Aiola Analytics

See every OAI-AdsBot visit on your site

Aiola tracks 70 AI, search and link-preview crawlers next to your human traffic. See when OAI-AdsBot arrives, which pages it requests and how that changes over time. Hosted Analytics needs Pro or a trial.

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