# 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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Every claimed field for OAI-AdsBot is documented at /fields.

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