# Applebot

> Powers Siri, Spotlight and Safari suggestions. Blocking it is a search decision, not an AI decision — the AI decision has its own token.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Apple |
| category | Search engines |
| robots.txt token | `Applebot` |
| user-agent contains | `Applebot` |
| robots.txt | obeys robots.txt (documented) |
| verify by | published IP ranges |
| published IP ranges | https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json |
| prefixes mirrored | 33 IPv4 / 0 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829 |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-14 |

## What blocking it costs you

You disappear from Siri, Spotlight and Safari search suggestions across Apple's install base.

## Full user-agent string

```
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
```

## Ask this page a question, with one GET

A question about this page, answered by a call you can make right now — no key, no account, no JSON-RPC, nothing to assemble. The query string is already filled in with this page's own subject.

- **How do I prove a request really is Applebot?**  
  `curl -s 'https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/tools/verification-methods?crawler=applebot&s=client-dossiers'`  
  The verification method its operator actually publishes — published IP ranges, reverse DNS, or nothing at all — and the mirror of it on this host.
- **Is 17.166.150.0 really Applebot?**  
  `curl -s 'https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/tools/verify-crawler?ip=17.166.150.0&ua=Applebot&s=client-dossiers'`  
  That address checked against every prefix this host mirrors. 17.166.150.0 is the first address of 17.166.150.0/24, one of the ranges listed on this page — so the link is a worked example that returns a match. Swap in an address from your own log.

Every parameter above is a value the endpoint reads, not an address it visits: nothing is fetched on your behalf. Called without any parameter, each endpoint returns its own specification instead of an error.

JSON: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/applebot.json · index: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/llms.txt