OAI-SearchBot
AI search or answering bot
Identification
- User-Agent token
- OAI-SearchBot
- Published IP ranges
- 35
Requests claiming this User-Agent are verified against the operator's published ranges.
robots.txt behaviour
- Honours robots.txt
- Yes
- Honours crawl-delay
- Yes
- Honours Allow rules
- Yes
- Reads Sitemap directives
- Yes
Observed activity
- Distinct IPs observed
- 270
- TLS fingerprints observed
- 10
- First seen
- 2026-05-21
- Last seen
- 2026-08-09
Aggregated across traffic monitored by urlcap. Updated continuously.
Where it crawls from
Top countries (by distinct IPs)
US
270
Top networks
Unknown network
270
Verify OAI-SearchBot on your own traffic
One API call checks a visitor's IP against published ranges, reverse DNS and TLS fingerprints — so spoofed User-Agents don't fool you.