OAI-AdsBot
OpenAI ads bot, purpose: ads.
The OAI-AdsBot record on Rattlesnakes By Mail is the full published file on OAI-AdsBot, a ads_bot from OpenAI. Each fact on the OAI-AdsBot 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
- ads_bot
- purpose
- ads
- ua_token
OAI-AdsBot- robots_token
OAI-AdsBot- ip_list_url
- https://openai.com/adsbot.json
- docs_url
- https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots
- status
- active
Checks ad landing page quality and relevance for ChatGPT ads. Vendor documentation states it only visits pages submitted for ads review.
Claims
| Field | Value | Method | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| honours_crawl_delay | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | vendor_doc | high |
| purpose_documented | ads | vendor_doc | high |
| respects_robots_txt | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |
| scope_of_crawling | limited to submitted ad landing pages | 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; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot | vendor_doc | high |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |
Observations
- requests, last 30 days
- 0
- verified requests, last 30 days
- 0
- verified share, last 30 days
- no data yet
- daily rows recorded
- 0
Changes
| Date | Claim | Kind | Old value | New value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-13 | respects_robots_txt | new | not_documented | |
| 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 | ads | |
| 2026-09-13 | separate_search_and_training_tokens | new | not_documented | |
| 2026-09-13 | user_agent_string_full | new | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot | |
| 2026-09-13 | scope_of_crawling | new | limited to submitted ad landing pages |
Notes
No published notes for this entity yet.
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