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What is Applebot?

Apple's crawler for search in Siri, Spotlight and Safari. Apple says the data it collects may be used to help train Apple models.

robots.txt token: Applebot
Operator: Apple
Purpose: Search
Obeys robots.txt: Yes The operator says it follows robots.txt.
Documented by operator: Yes, on the operator's own pages.
Published IP list: search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json
Documentation: support.apple.com

It ignores Crawl-delay, and if your robots.txt has no Applebot group it follows your Googlebot rules.

Block Applebot from your whole site

robots.txt

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

Allow it, but keep private paths out

robots.txt

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

Other bots from Apple

Applebot-Extended

Add it to a robots.txt in the generator →

Sources

support.apple.com/en-us/119829