applebot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTApplebot data is used to power various features, such as the search technology that is integrated into many user experiences in Appleʼs ecosystem including Spotlight, Siri, and Safari. Operated by Apple.
What is applebot?
Applebot is a web crawler operated by Apple. Applebot data is used to power various features, such as the search technology that is integrated into many user experiences in Appleʼs ecosystem including Spotlight, Siri, and Safari.
Identification
ApplebotHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- Cloudflare To Block AI Bots From Scraping Content, Launches Marketplace To Let Websites Charge For Crawling By Stocktwits
- What is a bot? | Learning Center
- What Is a robots.txt File? (And When To Use One)
- Known Agents Review: Google Analytics for Bots | Agent Finder
Why it crawls your site
Applebot crawls websites to index and analyze web content for AI-powered search results. It is operated by Apple as part of their AI-powered search infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
IP ranges
Requests from applebot originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
Block or allow applebot
Add a Disallow rule for Applebot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block Applebot from crawling your entire site User-agent: Applebot Disallow: / # Allow Applebot full access User-agent: Applebot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Applebot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Apple's documentation.
Traffic & trends
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From the community
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