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Applebot-Extended

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The Apple control token, mirroring Google-Extended: it never crawls, it only tells Apple whether pages Applebot already fetched may train Apple foundation models. Disallow it to opt out of training while keeping Siri and Spotlight visibility.

What it feeds

Applebot-Extended feeds nothing. Apple documents it as a control used only to decide how data already crawled by Applebot may be used,[1] specifically whether it may train generative foundation models.[2]

How to identify it

It cannot be identified in logs, because Apple states it does not crawl webpages at all.[3] It exists solely as a string in robots.txt. Anything presenting this name over HTTP is not Apple.

Blocking and its consequences

Apple states that pages disallowing this token can still appear in search results.[4] That is the whole design: a publisher can opt out of model training while keeping Siri and Spotlight visibility intact, a separation Google makes the same way with Google-Extended.

Verification

Operator documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829

Robots-only token - never appears in logs

A user agent is a claim, not a proof: any client can send any name. Where an operator publishes IP ranges, a reverse lookup is the only way to tell a real visit from an impersonation.

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Requests from this bot across sites tracked by Baseline, last 30 days. Aggregated over - sites, never reported per site.

References (4)
  1. Apple: about Applebot
    Documentation Retrieved 2026-09-05
  2. Apple: about Applebot
    Documentation Retrieved 2026-09-05
  3. Apple: about Applebot
    Documentation Retrieved 2026-09-05
  4. Apple: about Applebot
    Documentation Retrieved 2026-09-05

Last updated 2026-09-05. Written and maintained by Baseline Labs.

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