{"id":18505998,"date":"2025-06-10T16:19:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/openai-search-bots-visits\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:32:58","slug":"openai-search-bots-visits","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/openai-search-bots-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI search bots visits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear WordPress Community,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m looking to track how often OpenAI&#8217;s <code>OAI-SearchBot<\/code> accesses my WordPress website. This bot visits web content for ChatGPT&#8217;s search functionality, and understanding its activity could offer insights similar to &#8220;impressions&#8221; in traditional SEO metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to OpenAI&#8217;s documentation, OAI-SearchBot uses the user-agent string: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>Mozilla\/5.0 AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-SearchBot\/1.0; +https:\/\/openai.com\/searchbot<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They also provide a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/searchbot.json\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">searchbot.json<\/a>&nbsp;file listing the IP ranges used by this bot.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>How can I detect and log server-side requests from OAI-SearchBot on my WordPress website?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are there WordPress apps or integrations that can help monitor such bot traffic?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Has anyone implemented a solution to track these requests effectively?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any guidance or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18505998","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-seo"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18505998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18505998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18506019,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18505998\/revisions\/18506019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18505998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}