training crawlers

Applebot

Operated by Apple · Training crawlers

Apple crawler Cloudflare classifies across search and training use cases.

When Applebot shows up in your logs

Apple is crawling your page for Siri, Spotlight, or Safari search features.

Crawlers that collect public content that may be used to train or ground models.

Allow or block it in robots.txt

A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.

allow
User-agent: Applebot
Disallow:
block
User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

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