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GPTBot and OpenAI crawler tracking
GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User, told apart
OpenAI sends more than one crawler to your site, and each one means something different. WriteWorks separates GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User and OAI-Operator, labels each by purpose, and shows which of your pages every one of them fetched.
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Claude and MCP clients The challenge
Why OpenAI crawler traffic is misread
Several bots, several purposes, one vendor name.
All OpenAI traffic looks the same in a log
GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User all come from OpenAI, but they do different jobs. Lumped together, a spike in OpenAI traffic could mean training collection, search indexing or real users asking ChatGPT about you.
The visit that matters most is the rarest
A ChatGPT-User request means a person asked ChatGPT something and it fetched your page to answer. Those requests are the closest thing to a live citation signal, and they are easy to miss among bulk GPTBot crawling.
Robots.txt decisions made without evidence
Teams decide whether to allow GPTBot or OAI-SearchBot without knowing how often each one visits or which pages they read.
Pages are built for links, not answers
Content written to rank in blue links rarely carries the structure an assistant needs to quote it directly.
The solution
How WriteWorks separates OpenAI's crawlers
Identify, classify, then connect to ChatGPT visibility.
WriteWorks resolves every OpenAI user agent to ChatGPT and classifies it: ChatGPT-User as AI Citation, OAI-SearchBot as AI Indexing, GPTBot as AI Training and OAI-Operator as AI Assistant.
Open any page to see which OpenAI crawlers fetched it, split by intent, so you can tell a page ChatGPT reads for live answers from one GPTBot collects for training.
WriteWorks also tracks whether ChatGPT cites you. Bot signals list pages OpenAI crawled in the last 7 days that ChatGPT has not cited yet, so you know which pages to strengthen.
Customer story
How teams are winning AI search
From invisibility to category dominance across every major answer engine.
“Before WriteWorks, our content landed and disappeared. Now every asset ships citation-ready, gets cited across the engines our buyers ask, and ties back to the loop. It's the first time we've measured AI search as a real channel.”
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Capabilities
OpenAI crawler capabilities
Per-bot, per-page and per-intent.
GPTBot tracking
OpenAI's training crawler, counted and listed by page.
OAI-SearchBot tracking
The crawler behind ChatGPT search results, labelled as indexing.
ChatGPT-User tracking
User-initiated fetches when ChatGPT answers a live question.
Intent split per page
Citation, indexing and training activity broken out on every URL.
Period comparison
OpenAI crawl volume against the previous period over 7, 30 or 90 days.
ChatGPT-referred visitors
People arriving from ChatGPT answers, with the browser snippet.
Time savings
What changes with per-bot data
From one OpenAI blob to four clear signals.
TaskBeforeWith WriteWorksTime saved
Separate OpenAI crawlersOne OpenAI totalFour signatures, four purposesAutomatic
Spot live ChatGPT fetchesLost in bulk crawlingChatGPT-User on its own lineSignal recovered
Decide robots.txt rulesGuessworkPer-bot visit and page dataEvidence-based
Included
What's included
The OpenAI view inside AI crawler intelligence.
GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User and OAI-Operator recognised
Each classified by bot type
Per-page drill-down by intent
Live log stream with path filter
Crawled-but-not-cited watch list for ChatGPT
AI crawler and agent traffic report template
Built for
Who uses it
Teams that care how ChatGPT sees their site.
Technical SEO
Know exactly which OpenAI bot hits which page, and how often.
Brands targeting ChatGPT
Watch the crawl side of your ChatGPT visibility.
Publishers
Separate training collection from search and user fetches before setting policy.
Featured story
Fhresh
“WriteWorks turned AI search from a black box into our most measurable channel. We can show the board how we're cited, our share of voice, and how sentiment is trending, across every engine.”
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Markets tracked
Sentiment
Scored on every mention
Board-ready
AI-visibility reporting
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Everything teams typically ask before getting started.
What is GPTBot?+
GPTBot is OpenAI's crawler for collecting public web content that may be used to train its models. WriteWorks classifies it as AI Training. Allowing or disallowing it in robots.txt affects training collection, not whether ChatGPT search can show your pages.
What is OAI-SearchBot?+
OAI-SearchBot is the OpenAI crawler used to surface websites in ChatGPT's search features. WriteWorks classifies it as AI Indexing, because it builds the index ChatGPT draws on when it searches the web.
What is ChatGPT-User?+
ChatGPT-User is the agent ChatGPT uses when a person's request causes it to visit a web page, for example to answer a question with a live source. WriteWorks classifies it as AI Citation, since these fetches happen at the moment an answer is being written.
What is the difference between GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot?+
GPTBot collects content for model training. OAI-SearchBot indexes pages so ChatGPT search can link to them. They are separate robots.txt tokens, so you can allow one and block the other. WriteWorks counts them separately so you can see the effect of either choice.
Which plans include OpenAI crawler tracking?+
AI crawler analytics is included on the Growth and Enterprise plans and on agency plans, not on Starter.
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Tell OpenAI's crawlers apart
GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User, each identified, classified and tied to the pages they fetched.