Applebot
Apple crawler, purpose: search.
Identity
- vendor
- Apple
- kind
- crawler
- purpose
- search
- ua_token
Applebot- robots_token
Applebot- ip_list_url
- https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json
- docs_url
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- status
- active
Crawls the web to power Siri, Spotlight and Safari search features.
Claims
| Field | Value | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| cites_sources | yes | medium |
| fallback_to_googlebot_rules | yes | high |
| honours_crawl_delay | no | high |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high |
| purpose_documented | mixed | high |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | n/a |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | high |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | partial | high |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot) | high |
| verifiable_by_rdns | yes | high |
Observations
- requests, last 30 days
- 0
- verified share, last 30 days
- no data yet
- daily rows recorded
- 0
Changes
| Date | Kind | Old value | New value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-13 | new | [object Object] | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new | [object Object] | no |
| 2026-09-13 | new | [object Object] | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new | [object Object] | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new | [object Object] | mixed |
| 2026-09-13 | new | [object Object] | partial |
| 2026-09-13 | new | [object Object] | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new | [object Object] | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | new | [object Object] | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot) |
| 2026-09-13 | new | [object Object] | yes |
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