# 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 |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | no |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | mixed |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | partial |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | 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 |  | yes |

## Questions

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