# What is ChatGPT-User?

> ChatGPT-User (OpenAI): what it does, how it helps your site show up in AI products, and how to test access on your own URL.

Canonical: https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/chatgpt-user

AI crawler · retrieval · OpenAI

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.

### Check your site in a minute

The [AI crawler checker](https://crawlwise.site/tools/ai-crawler-check) tests ChatGPT-User plus the other answer-engine bots on one URL. No account. Want robots.txt logic only? Use the [robots.txt tester](https://crawlwise.site/tools/robots-tester).

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- [GPTBot](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/gptbot) — OpenAI
- [OAI-SearchBot](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/oai-searchbot) — OpenAI
- [ClaudeBot](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/claudebot) — Anthropic
- [Claude-SearchBot](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/claude-searchbot) — Anthropic
- [Claude-User](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/claude-user) — Anthropic
- [Google-Extended](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/google-extended) — Google
- [PerplexityBot](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/perplexitybot) — Perplexity
- [Perplexity-User](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/perplexity-user) — Perplexity
- [CCBot](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/ccbot) — Common Crawl
- [Bytespider](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/bytespider) — ByteDance
- [Applebot-Extended](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/applebot-extended) — Apple
- [Meta-ExternalAgent](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/meta-externalagent) — Meta
- [Amazonbot](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/amazonbot) — Amazon
- [cohere-ai](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/cohere-ai) — Cohere
- [Diffbot](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/diffbot) — Diffbot
- [Timpibot](https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/timpibot) — Timpi