Applebot-Extended

Apple policy token, purpose: training.

The Applebot-Extended record on Rattlesnakes By Mail is the full published file on Applebot-Extended, a policy_token from Apple. Each fact on the Applebot-Extended record is a dated claim with a verbatim quote from Apple, a source URL, a verification method and a confidence. Sections run in a fixed order: Identity, Claims, Observations, Changes, Questions, Notes.

Identity

vendor: Apple
kind: policy_token
purpose: training
ua_token: (none, see notes)
robots_token: Applebot-Extended
ip_list_url: (none published)
docs_url: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
status: active

Robots.txt token that controls whether content already crawled by Applebot may be used to train Apple foundation models. Vendor documentation states Applebot-Extended does not crawl web pages: it is a policy token, not an observable crawler.

Claims

Field	Value	Method	Confidence
honours_crawl_delay	`n/a`	vendor_doc	n/a
publishes_ip_list	`no`	vendor_doc	medium
purpose_documented	`policy_only`	vendor_doc	high
respects_robots_txt	`n/a`	vendor_doc	high
robots_token_differs_from_ua	`yes`	vendor_doc	medium
separate_search_and_training_tokens	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
verifiable_by_rdns	`n/a`	vendor_doc	n/a
what_it_controls	`AI training use of content, not search indexing`	vendor_doc	high

Observations

requests, last 30 days: 0
verified requests, last 30 days: 0
verified share, last 30 days: no data yet
daily rows recorded: 0

Changes

Date	Claim	Kind	New value
2026-09-13	respects_robots_txt	new	n/a
2026-09-13	honours_crawl_delay	new	n/a
2026-09-13	publishes_ip_list	new	no
2026-09-13	verifiable_by_rdns	new	n/a
2026-09-13	purpose_documented	new	policy_only
2026-09-13	separate_search_and_training_tokens	new	yes
2026-09-13	what_it_controls	new	AI training use of content, not search indexing
2026-09-13	robots_token_differs_from_ua	new	yes

Notes

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