# 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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**Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-seen-the-openai-web-crawler-gptbot-visit-their-site/274370/7 "2023-08-22T13:30:49Z")

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No, well yes kinda, see I couldn’t read it as it was truncated but I think it is **AppleWebKit** crawler. I’d need to export the data to read the full entry.

Since then I have blocked virtually all crawlers even though it is the same as you in a login\_required private forum. Crawlers have dropped to 20 so far today, compared to nearly 14,000 a few days ago!

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