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GPTBot — robots.txt guide

Crawls web content to improve OpenAI generative AI models and ChatGPT.

robots.txt User-agent
GPTBot
Company
OpenAI

How to allow GPTBot in robots.txt

Add an explicit allow rule (recommended when you use specific bot blocks elsewhere):

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

How to block GPTBot in robots.txt

Block this crawler from your entire site:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

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