# Applebot

Apple crawler, purpose: search.

The Applebot record on Rattlesnakes By Mail is the full published file on Applebot, a crawler from Apple. Each fact on the Applebot 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: crawler
purpose: search
ua_token: Applebot
robots_token: Applebot
ip_list_url: https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json
docs_url: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
status: active

Crawls the web to power Siri, Spotlight and Safari search features.

## Claims

| Field | Value | Method | Confidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| observed_paths_fetched | robots_txt_and_home_only | observed_here | medium |
| cites_sources | yes | vendor_doc | medium |
| fallback_to_googlebot_rules | yes | vendor_doc | high |
| honours_crawl_delay | no | vendor_doc | high |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | vendor_doc | high |
| purpose_documented | mixed | vendor_doc | high |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | vendor_doc | high |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | partial | vendor_doc | high |
| user_agent_string_full | 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) | vendor_doc | high |
| verifiable_by_rdns | yes | vendor_doc | high |

## Observations

requests, last 30 days: 366
verified requests, last 30 days: 366
verified share, last 30 days: 100%
daily rows recorded: 7

## Changes

| Date | Claim | Kind | Old value | New value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-09-17 | observed_paths_fetched | new |  | robots_txt_and_home_only |
| 2026-09-13 | respects_robots_txt | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | honours_crawl_delay | new |  | no |
| 2026-09-13 | publishes_ip_list | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | verifiable_by_rdns | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | purpose_documented | new |  | mixed |
| 2026-09-13 | separate_search_and_training_tokens | new |  | partial |
| 2026-09-13 | cites_sources | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | reads_llms_txt | new |  | not_documented |
| 2026-09-13 | user_agent_string_full | new |  | 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) |
| 2026-09-13 | fallback_to_googlebot_rules | new |  | yes |

## Notes

No published notes for this entity yet.

## Compare with

- Applebot vs Claude-SearchBot
- Applebot vs Claude-User
- Applebot vs ClaudeBot
- Applebot vs Applebot-Extended
- Applebot vs Google-Extended
- Applebot vs GoogleOther
- Applebot vs Googlebot
- Applebot vs Bingbot
- Applebot vs ChatGPT-User
- Applebot vs GPTBot
- Applebot vs OAI-AdsBot
- Applebot vs OAI-SearchBot
- Applebot vs Perplexity-User
- Applebot vs PerplexityBot

Every claimed field for Applebot is documented at /fields.

Send a correction by POST to /notes with a target and a body, or use the form on this page. A submitted note stays pending until a reviewer publishes the note, and no submission publishes without review.