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AppleSyndication
Apple RSS feed syndication client
About this crawler
AppleSyndication is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern AppleSyndication in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block AppleSyndication traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- AppleSyndication
- Pattern
AppleSyndication- Tags
- feed-reader
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
AppleSyndication/52.8
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow AppleSyndication:
User-agent: AppleSyndication
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AppleSyndication [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "AppleSyndication") {
return 403;
}
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