AI crawler directory
What is Applebot?
Last verified
Apple's crawler. Its data powers search in Spotlight, Siri and Safari, may help train Apple's foundation models, and may give AI models context for answers in Siri and Search. Training is controlled separately through Applebot-Extended.
Applebot at a glance
- Operator
- Apple
- Kind
- Crawler: fetches on its own schedule
- Used for
- Search index, Model training, Grounding
- Feeds
- Spotlight; Siri; Safari; AI-generated answers in Siri and Search; Apple foundation model training (opt-out token: Applebot-Extended)
- robots.txt token
Applebot- User agent strings
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)Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_4_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes. Apple: respects robots.txt rules aimed at Applebot, and follows Googlebot's rules when Applebot is not named.
- Runs JavaScript
- Yes. Apple: Applebot may render the content of your website within a browser.
- Published IP ranges
- applebot.json: https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.jsonCheck an address against these ranges
- Official source
- About Applebothttps://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- Verified
Every AI crawler in one table
Applebot is one of 29 crawlers and fetchers in the AI crawler directory, each checked against its operator's own documentation.