Species index / openai
OAI-SearchBot
Operated by OpenAI. Identity is self-declared and unverified.
2Requests
2Distinct IPs
2Well-known probes
2026-08-19First seen
2026-08-19Last seen
Identity
| Kind | crawler |
|---|---|
| Family | openai |
| Stated purpose | search |
| UA match | oai-searchbot |
| Verified | no |
| robots.txt | insufficient-data |
| Operator docs | https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots |
What it went looking for
The order and selection of discovery paths is a design fingerprint: it reflects which conventions whoever built this client decided to support.
| Path | Hits | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
/robots.txt | 2 | 2026-08-19 | 2026-08-19 |
Protocol fingerprint
| HTTP | TLS | Cipher | ALPN | Requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP/2.0 | TLS1.3 | TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 | h2 | 2 |
TLS client fingerprint
Captured off the wire before the proxy terminates TLS. JA4 is stable across IP changes and much harder to spoof than a User-Agent string, so it is the strongest identity signal on this page.
| JA4 | JA3 | TLS | ALPN | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| t13d1011h2_61a7ad8aa9b6_3fcd1a44f3e3 | 06cd413e086f2ae6... | 13 | h2,http/1.1 | 1 |
Requests per day (60 days)
| Day | Requests | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-19 | 2 |