My website gets hit a lot by openai gptbot, far to much!!, I’ve got bot blockers on, but i know they are helpful for seo, well I hope! I don’t want to block them completely I guess. Is there a way to make them only hit at say 2am to 4am???

Interesting suggestion! There’s not currently a web standard for this but we can think about whether there might a simple way for sites to express that intent at scale. In the meantime you can find more information about OpenAI crawlers here . Note that it’s possible to block GPTBot but continue to …

Bots hitting my website at peak times....a lot

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vb March 24, 2025, 12:50pm 2

Hi and welcome to the community!

OpenAI has a dedicated mailbox where you can report your issue:

I hope the problem will be resolved soon!

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Bots hitting my website at peak times....a lot

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