ChatGPT-User
Fetches a page live when a ChatGPT user asks about it — not bulk crawling. Blocking it stops ChatGPT users from reading your pages on demand.
| robots.txt token | ChatGPT-User |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes — honors its own robots.txt token |
| Verification | OpenAI publishes IP ranges |
| Our recommendation | Allow — A human asked for your page; this is closer to a visit than a scrape. |
Block ChatGPT-User with robots.txt
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /robots.txt is a request, not a wall — requests claiming to be ChatGPT-User from unverified networks should be treated as bad bots. How to verify crawlers by network →
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