Search engines

Applebot

Apple's web crawler; its data powers search features in Spotlight, Siri and Safari and may supply context for AI-generated answers in Apple products. The separate Applebot-Extended token (no crawling of its own) controls whether crawled data may train Apple's foundation models.

Dossier

Operator: Apple
Documentation: support.apple.com
robots.txt token: ApplebotApplebot-Extended
Feeds: search index, live answer fetch, model training
Follows robots.txt: Yes, per its documentationFollows Applebot rules; falls back to Googlebot rules if no Applebot group; ignores crawl-delay. Training opt-out via Applebot-Extended.
How to verify: Published IP ranges and reverse DNSsearch.developer.apple.com
Names in our logs: applebot
Researched: 23 Oct 2026

Observed on New Runtime

Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…

Requests: 4,609
Days active: 88 / 93
First seen: 24 Jul 2026
Last seen: 23 Oct 2026

Regularsearch_crawler

Daily requests across the observed window, square-root scale.

Identity check claimed vs verified

verified503 reqofficial cidr
claimed unverified2 reqofficial cidr

What it reads crawler journeys · current window

Content pages415
Feeds & discovery50
Machine-consumption43

212 unique materials · 3 canonical pages

Sources

support.apple.comsupport.apple.com/en-us/119829
search.developer.apple.comsearch.developer.apple.com/applebot.json