AppSiteAssociation
Verifies app connection to website domains
About this crawler
AppSiteAssociation is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern AppSiteAssociation in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block AppSiteAssociation traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- AppSiteAssociation
- Pattern
AppSiteAssociation- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applications/allowing-app-linking-to-your-website
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
AppSiteAssociation
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow AppSiteAssociation:
User-agent: AppSiteAssociation
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AppSiteAssociation [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "AppSiteAssociation") {
return 403;
}
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