# Has anyone seen the OpenAI web crawler GPTBot visit their site?

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**Created:** [August 8, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-seen-the-openai-web-crawler-gptbot-visit-their-site/274370 "2023-08-08T16:07:50Z")\
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Same feelings here last month I allowed GPTBot/DeepSeek/Perplexity with delay I have seen this sources growing slowly and converting new members

Tip: Cloudflare Rate Limits maybe can help you to avoid high requests and bandwith overload

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