OpenAI SearchBot IP ranges

Current IP ranges (CIDRs) used by the OpenAI SearchBot crawler, updated daily.

curl -O https://cloud-ip-ranges.com/download/openai-searchbot.txt

Blocking OpenAI SearchBot

iptables

curl -sO https://cloud-ip-ranges.com/download/openai-searchbot.txt
while read ip; do
  iptables -A INPUT -s $ip -j DROP
  iptables -A OUTPUT -d $ip -j DROP
done < openai-searchbot.txt

ufw

curl -sO https://cloud-ip-ranges.com/download/openai-searchbot.txt
while read ip; do
  ufw deny from $ip
  ufw deny to $ip
done < openai-searchbot.txt

fail2ban

sudo tee /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/openai-searchbot-block.conf << EOF
[Definition]
failregex = ^.*$
ignoreregex =
EOF

sudo tee /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/openai-searchbot-block.conf << EOF
[openai-searchbot-block]
enabled = true
filter = openai-searchbot-block
action = iptables-allports[name=openai-searchbot]
logpath = /tmp/openai-searchbot.txt
findtime = 1
bantime = -1
maxretry = 1
EOF

curl -so /tmp/openai-searchbot.txt https://cloud-ip-ranges.com/download/openai-searchbot.txt
sudo systemctl restart fail2ban

pfSense / OPNsense

curl -sO https://cloud-ip-ranges.com/download/openai-searchbot.txt
# Firewall > Aliases: new alias OPENAI-SEARCHBOT_BLOCK, type Network(s), import the file
# Firewall > Rules > WAN: Action=Block, Source=OPENAI-SEARCHBOT_BLOCK

About

These IP ranges are sourced from OpenAI SearchBot's official feed and are updated regularly. Use them to verify that requests claiming to be OpenAI SearchBot actually originate from it, or to rate-limit or block it at the network edge. To opt out of crawling entirely, prefer a robots.txt rule — blocking by IP can prevent the crawler from reading your robots.txt at all. Last update was 3 days ago.

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