AI crawler directory / Applebot
Applebot
Documented Provider-maintained crawler reference.
Reference facts
- Provider
- Apple
- robots.txt token
Applebot- Purpose
- Search and discovery
- Crawls pages
- Yes
- Obeys robots.txt
- Yes — documented by provider
- Search-visibility relevance
- Direct
- Status
- active
- Last verified
- Revision
- 1.0
Recommended policy notes
- Apple documents Applebot as its web crawler for products including Spotlight, Siri, and Safari search experiences.
- Configure Applebot separately from Applebot-Extended.
Common misconceptions
- That Applebot-Extended performs the page crawl.