ChatGPT-User
ChatGPT uses ChatGPT-User to open a page when someone asks a question about it.
- Operated by
- OpenAI
- robots.txt token
ChatGPT-User- User-Agent sent
- Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot
- Honours robots.txt
- Not necessarily. OpenAI documents that because the fetch is started by a person, robots.txt rules may not apply. A
Disallowhere is a request, not a control.
This one is on the answer path.
ChatGPT uses it to open pages when someone asks a question, so while it's blocked ChatGPT can't read your pages when someone asks about you.
Two lines in robots.txt.
Block ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /Goes in the robots.txt at the root of your domain.
Allow ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /Only needed if a broader rule already blocks it — a group of its own overrides the wildcard.
Group selection matches the token, not the full User-Agent string, and it is case-insensitive. A rule under User-agent: * applies only when the crawler has no group of its own.
OpenAI runs more than one, and they do different jobs.
Blocking one does not block the others. This is where most advice goes wrong: the rule that stops model training is not the rule that decides whether you appear in an answer.
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We run a crawler too. Here is what it does and how to block it.
Knowing what ChatGPT-User does doesn’t tell you whether your site lets it in.
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