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What is ChatGPT-User?

A fetch triggered when a person asks ChatGPT about a URL or topic — closer to a visitor than a background indexer.

How this helps you show up

When this bot can load your page, the person asking gets an answer grounded in your actual content. That is direct exposure at the moment someone is curious about you.

If it cannot reach your page

The user still gets an answer, but your page is not in it. Treat it like turning away someone who clicked through from a chat.

The facts

robots.txt token
ChatGPT-User
Owner
OpenAI
Product it serves
ChatGPT
Category
retrieval — indexed so an answer can cite it
Training opt-out
Retrieval / user fetch — usually keep open for citations
User agent as sent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot

robots.txt is a request, not a lock. Our checker fetches your page as ChatGPT-User and reports what actually came back — status code, challenge page, or real HTML.

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