Apple: 2 rows
In short
Apple has 2 rows in the Index: Applebot and Applebot-Extended. They cover 2 purposes: search index, training. 2 of them have a robots.txt token and 1 publish nothing a site can verify. The most refused is Applebot, disallowed at the root by 14.8 percent of top-10,000 sites. IP list and reverse DNS.
| Operator | Token | Block rate |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | Applebot | 14.8% |
| Apple | Applebot-Extended | 14.8% |
Vendor profile: Apple, with its products, standards, our probes and what it does not do.
Verification Ledger entry
- Summary
- IP list and reverse DNS.
- IP lists
- Reverse DNS
- *.applebot.apple.com
- Key directory
- publishes nothing
- Cloudflare
- not checked
- Visa and Mastercard
- Visa TAP: no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04). Mastercard Agent Pay: no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04).
Block rates for Apple tokens
| Token | Refused, top 10,000 | Named | Via * | All crawled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applebot | 14.8% | 11.6% | 3.1% | 11.1% |
| Applebot-Extended | 14.8% | 11.6% | 3.1% | 11.1% |
Based on 5,938 top-10,000 sites with a parsed robots.txt; crawl of 2026-11-04.
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Last reviewed 2026-11-04