ChatGPT-User
Fetches a single page in real time when a ChatGPT user (or a GPT) follows a link or asks ChatGPT to browse a specific URL.
What ChatGPT-User is for
Fetches a page in real time to answer a question someone just asked.
A visit usually means a real person just asked ChatGPT about your page. It reads one page on demand rather than crawling broadly.
Crawler guide
Evergreen identity, source, and robots.txt handling guidance.
Allow or block ChatGPT-User
Honours robots.txt. Add one of these to your robots.txt.
User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: /
Other AI crawlers
Every bot Trakkr tracks is a doorway.
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What is ChatGPT-User?
ChatGPT-User is an AI web crawler operated by OpenAI. Fetches a single page in real time when a ChatGPT user (or a GPT) follows a link or asks ChatGPT to browse a specific URL.
How do I block ChatGPT-User?
Add a directive to your robots.txt: "User-agent: ChatGPT-User" followed by "Disallow: /". Honours robots.txt.
Does blocking ChatGPT-User hide me from AI?
A visit usually means a real person just asked ChatGPT about your page. It reads one page on demand rather than crawling broadly.
Identity and robots.txt facts come from OpenAI's published bot documentation. Behaviour is measured from identified ChatGPT-User requests in the server logs of the brands Trakkr tracks - 576K crawler visits across 84 sites, recounted as new data arrives.
Telemetry updated Feb 1, 2026.