Applebot
Apple · Feeds a search index
If your robots.txt has no rules for Applebot but has some for Googlebot, Applebot follows the Googlebot ones. To keep a page out of the AI-generated answers in Siri and Search, Apple points to the nosnippet meta tag.
Fact sheet
- Operator
- Apple
- What it is for
- It crawls the web to build the index the assistant draws its answers from.
- Assistant it feeds
- Apple: Siri and Spotlight
- Counts towards the Parsigo score
- Yes. It feeds the index of one of the assistants we measure.
- Official documentation
- support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- Official IP ranges
- JSON list
If you block it
You ask for your pages to be left out of the index the assistant (Apple: Siri and Spotlight) draws its answers from.
Allow or block
A group of its own makes Applebot ignore the “User-agent: *” rules. If you have Disallow lines there that should still apply to it, repeat them inside its group. To allow it, writing nothing is usually enough.
Allow
User-agent: Applebot Allow: /
Block
User-agent: Applebot Disallow: /
Test it on your site
We run the diagnostic on your site and show you whether Applebot can get in, with the robots.txt line that decides it. Free, no sign-up.