# ChatGPT-User

OpenAI fetcher, purpose: user_fetch.

The ChatGPT-User record on Rattlesnakes By Mail is the full published file on ChatGPT-User, a fetcher from OpenAI. Each fact on the ChatGPT-User record is a dated claim with a verbatim quote from OpenAI, a source URL, a verification method and a confidence. Sections run in a fixed order: Identity, Claims, Observations, Changes, Questions, Notes.

## Identity

vendor: OpenAI
kind: fetcher
purpose: user_fetch
ua_token: ChatGPT-User
robots_token: ChatGPT-User
ip_list_url: https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json
docs_url: https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots
status: active

Fetches a page only when a ChatGPT or Custom GPT user directs it to that URL. Vendor documentation states robots.txt rules may not apply to this fetcher.

## Claims

| Field | Value | Method | Confidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cites_sources | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |
| honours_crawl_delay | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | vendor_doc | high |
| purpose_documented | user_fetch | vendor_doc | high |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |
| respects_robots_txt | partial | vendor_doc | high |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | not_documented | vendor_doc | medium |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot | vendor_doc | high |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |

## Observations

requests, last 30 days: 5
verified requests, last 30 days: 5
verified share, last 30 days: 100%
daily rows recorded: 2

## Changes

| Date | Claim | Kind | Old value | New value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-09-13 | respects_robots_txt | new |  | partial |
| 2026-09-13 | honours_crawl_delay | new |  | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | publishes_ip_list | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | verifiable_by_rdns | new |  | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | purpose_documented | new |  | user_fetch |
| 2026-09-13 | separate_search_and_training_tokens | new |  | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | cites_sources | new |  | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | reads_llms_txt | new |  | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | user_agent_string_full | new |  | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot |

## Questions

| Question | Count | Last seen |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Will a compliant, named AI crawler always avoid URLs disallowed in robots.txt? | 2 | 2026-09-15 |

## Notes

No published notes for this entity yet.

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Every claimed field for ChatGPT-User is documented at /fields.

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