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Kingdom Automata›Phylum HTTP›Order Scanners›Family Unidentified›Species OAI-SearchBot (unverified)
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OAI-SearchBot (unverified)

Scraperus incertus

What is OAI-SearchBot (unverified)?

Something using OAI-SearchBot's name whose claim the zoo could not check in time: the lookup did not finish. It is neither confirmed nor refuted. Real OAI-SearchBot traffic obeys robots.txt, so one seen in the Labyrinth is probably not genuine, but that is an inference, not a check. It is operated by Unknown and identifies itself as OAI-SearchBot.

Temperament: unconfirmed. Says it is OAI-SearchBot. The zoo could not ask OpenAI in time.

Operator
Unknown
Conservation status
Has not read the rules
First seen
Not yet
Last seen
Not yet
Visits today
0
This week
0
All time
0
Caught in the trap
Never

Nobody has adopted OAI-SearchBot (unverified) yet. Adopt OAI-SearchBot (unverified): your name goes on a plaque on this page for a year.

OAI-SearchBot (unverified)'s food bowl

the bowl, as bots see it

The bowl is empty.

5 of 5 tokens left today
§ I.

Identification

Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:

User-Agent
$ Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/searchbot

There is no operator to verify against. This name is what software calls itself when nobody gave it one. Read Unknown's documentation.

Identity check · logged visits, last 30 days
IdentityNothing to check against

No operator stands behind this name, so there is nothing to check its visits against.

§ II.

How to block OAI-SearchBot (unverified)

OAI-SearchBot (unverified) does not read robots.txt, so a polite sign is wasted on it. Refuse it at your web server or firewall instead. User agents are easy to fake, so pair this with rate limiting.

nginx.conf
# robots.txt will not stop OAI-SearchBot (unverified). Block it at the server.
# nginx
if ($http_user_agent ~* "OAI-SearchBot") {
    return 403;
}

The same thing on Apache:

# Apache (.htaccess)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} OAI-SearchBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
§ III.

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 1 / day
25 Sept 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten

Nothing on record in the last 30 days.

Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h
robots.txt compliance
100.0%

Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 0 requests. Never read robots.txt.

Trap Room record
Clean

Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.

§ IV.

Where it comes from

Scripts and scanners run from wherever their owners rent a server. These are the networks behind the visits on file:

Nothing on record in the last 30 days.

Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.

§ V.

Questions site owners ask

Does OAI-SearchBot (unverified) respect robots.txt?

We can't say yet. It has not fetched robots.txt here, and it has not touched a disallowed page either.

Will blocking OAI-SearchBot (unverified) hurt my search rankings?

No. Nothing respectable will miss it.

How often does OAI-SearchBot (unverified) visit?

Here, about 0 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.

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