ChatGPT-User
ChatGPT user web crawler bot
About this crawler
ChatGPT-User is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ChatGPT-User in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-fetcher. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ChatGPT-User traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
5.7%
Technical details
- Name
- ChatGPT-User
- Pattern
ChatGPT-User- Tags
- ai-fetcher
- Reference
- https://openai.com/bot
- Added
- 2024/04/19
- rDNS suffixes
.openai.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely ChatGPT-User with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.openai.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ChatGPT-User:
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ChatGPT-User [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ChatGPT-User") {
return 403;
}
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