# OAI-AdsBot

OpenAI says OAI-AdsBot visits landing pages submitted as ChatGPT ads, to check policy compliance and relevance. It says those visits are not used to train generative AI foundation models. The same page does not say whether robots.txt controls OAI-AdsBot.

- Operator: OpenAI
- Kind: ads_check
- robots.txt: not_stated. The cited page does not say whether robots.txt controls this token.
- HTTP user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot OpenAI publishes this as the full user-agent string.
- IP list: https://openai.com/adsbot.json
- Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots (retrieved 2026-10-17)

## JSON

`curl -s https://whosthatbot.com/v1/crawlers/oai-adsbot`

## Check this token

tools/call with name check_robots is the same check at https://whosthatbot.com/mcp. Send `Content-Type: application/json` and `Accept: application/json, text/event-stream`. The pasted file disallows OAI-AdsBot on `/docs` and allows `*`. The call does not fetch a host.

```
curl -s https://whosthatbot.com/mcp -H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"check_robots","arguments":{"robots_txt":"User-agent: OAI-AdsBot\nDisallow: /\n\nUser-agent: *\nAllow: /\n","path":"/docs","ids":["oai-adsbot"]}}}'
```

That call returns fetched_target false. This row is disallow via group OAI-AdsBot, rule Disallow: /.

Each card paraphrases the linked vendor page and was checked on source.retrieved. This is not legal advice. robots.txt is a request from the site owner. Botcard does not fetch third-party sites and does not suggest ways around a disallow rule.