Applebot-Extended
Apple generative AI model training data collection
About this crawler
Applebot-Extended is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Applebot-Extended in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-crawler. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Applebot-Extended traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
6.2%
Technical details
- Name
- Applebot-Extended
- Pattern
Applebot-Extended- Tags
- ai-crawler
- Reference
- https://support.apple.com/en-gb/119829
- Added
- 2026/05/02
- rDNS suffixes
.applebot.apple.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Applebot-Extended with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.applebot.apple.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Applebot-Extended/1.0; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Applebot-Extended:
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Applebot-Extended [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Applebot-Extended") {
return 403;
}
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