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title: "Apple crawlers and agents | Agent Ready Crawlers"
description: "Apple in the Crawler Index: 2 crawlers and agents with tokens, purposes, verification method and block rates, read 2026-11-04. IP list and reverse DNS."
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last_updated: 2026-11-04
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# Apple crawlers and agents | Agent Ready Crawlers

> Apple in the Crawler Index: 2 crawlers and agents with tokens, purposes, verification method and block rates, read 2026-11-04. IP list and reverse DNS.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/operator/apple
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# 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.

Apple: 2 rows.

| Operator | Token | Purpose | Respects robots.txt | Verification | Block rate 2026-11-04 | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Apple | Applebot | Search index | Yes | Reverse DNS | 14.8% | Profile |
| Apple | Applebot-Extended | Training | Yes | None published | 14.8% | Profile |

Vendor profile: [Apple](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/apple/), with its products, standards, our probes and what it does not do.

## Verification Ledger entry

Summary

IP list and reverse DNS.

IP lists

-   [search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json](https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json)

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.

## In the news

-   2026-09-15[Cloudflare adds Disallow AI Training and the Accountable label](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/news/2026-09-15-cloudflare-adds-disallow-ai-training-and-the-accountable-lab/)

## Sources

-   [About Applebot](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04