ChatGPT-User: What It Does and How to Control It
Fetches pages on behalf of an individual ChatGPT user at their request — for example when ChatGPT opens a link you pasted into the conversation. It is not a bulk crawler.
What happens if you allow or block it
The vendor can open your page when one of its users asks it to.
ChatGPT cannot open your page when a user explicitly asks it to, while automated crawling continues unaffected.
The robots.txt rule
This is the exact rule auditme.dev publishes for ChatGPT-User:
User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / Disallow: /auth/ /_next/ /private/ /dashboard /settings /profile Disallow: ... (25 more paths)
The full path list lives in our robots.txt.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is ChatGPT-User allowed on auditme.dev?
Yes. Our robots.txt explicitly allows ChatGPT-User to crawl public pages while keeping private areas (auth, dashboard, internal APIs) disallowed.
Does blocking ChatGPT-User hurt Google rankings?
No. ChatGPT-User is OpenAI's crawler and works independently from Googlebot. Blocking it never changes your Google rankings — it only changes ChatGPT cannot open your page when a user explicitly asks it to, while automated crawling continues unaffected.
How do I allow or block ChatGPT-User on my own site?
Add a "User-agent: ChatGPT-User" block to your robots.txt with Allow or Disallow rules, then verify the file parses correctly.