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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

Kindcrawler
Familyopenai
Stated purposesearch
UA matchoai-searchbot
Verifiedno
robots.txtinsufficient-data
Operator docshttps://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.

PathHitsFirstLast
/robots.txt22026-08-192026-08-19

Protocol fingerprint

HTTPTLSCipherALPNRequests
HTTP/2.0TLS1.3TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256h22

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.

JA4JA3TLSALPNSeen
t13d1011h2_61a7ad8aa9b6_3fcd1a44f3e306cd413e086f2ae6...13h2,http/1.11

Requests per day (60 days)

DayRequests 
2026-08-192