training crawlers
Applebot-Extended
Operated by Apple · Training crawlers
A robots.txt token rather than a bot. It tells Apple whether it may use already-crawled content for AI training.
When Applebot-Extended shows up in your logs
Not traffic you'll see. It's the robots.txt switch for Apple's AI training permission.
Crawlers that collect public content that may be used to train or ground models.
Allow or block it in robots.txt
Applebot-Extended is a policy token: robots.txt is exactly where it lives, and these lines are the whole mechanism.
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