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title: "What is GPTBot? - LeapScope"
url: https://leap-scope.com/glossary/gptbot
description: "GPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler for collecting training data; it is distinct from OAI-SearchBot, which indexes pages for ChatGPT search."
---

# GPTBot

GPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler for collecting training data; it is distinct from OAI-SearchBot, which indexes pages for ChatGPT search.

Blocking GPTBot in robots.txt keeps a site out of OpenAI's future training sets but does not affect whether ChatGPT can cite the site in search-enabled answers. That depends on OAI-SearchBot and on ChatGPT-User, the fetcher used when a user asks about a specific page.

Many sites blocked GPTBot in 2023 with a group that also matched the search bots. Checking which crawlers a robots.txt actually blocks is the first step of any AI visibility audit.

## Related terms

- [robots.txt for AI crawlers](https://leap-scope.com/glossary/robots-txt-ai-crawlers)
- [AI crawler](https://leap-scope.com/glossary/ai-crawler)

[All glossary terms](https://leap-scope.com/glossary)

## Measure gptbot for your brand

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