OAI-AdsBot
OpenAI ads bot for validating ad landing pages on ChatGPT
About this crawler
OAI-AdsBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern [Oo][Aa][Ii]-[Aa]ds[Bb]ot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block OAI-AdsBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- OAI-AdsBot
- Pattern
[Oo][Aa][Ii]-[Aa]ds[Bb]ot- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- Added
- 2026/05/03
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
OAI-AdsBot
oai-adsbot
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow OAI-AdsBot:
User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} [Oo][Aa][Ii]-[Aa]ds[Bb]ot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "[Oo][Aa][Ii]-[Aa]ds[Bb]ot") {
return 403;
}
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