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.

1,078

requests to this site from Applebot, 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-29

100%

of requests verified against Apple's published identity

Applebot is Apple's crawler. The chart counts the pages it read on this site, day by day.

On a typical day the site logs about 14 requests from Applebot; the busiest day was 2026-09-24 with 426 requests, 32 times the typical day.

Requests per day from Applebot, 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-29. Source: this site's own request logs, each request checked against the vendor's published identity. Method: /method.

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 per day from Applebot, 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-29. Applebot made 1,078 requests in this window.

requests, last 30 days: 1078
verified requests, last 30 days: 1078
verified share, last 30 days: 100%
daily rows recorded: 14

Changes

Date	Claim	Kind	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

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