Known bots · Apple
What is Applebot?
Apple’s search engine's crawler. tidekeeper knows it by its User-Agent, and checks each read against the addresses Apple publishes.
- Run by
- Apple
- Reads for
- Search engine
- Known by
- “applebot” in its User-Agent, and Applebot in robots.txt
- Its addresses
- Apple publishes them: search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json. tidekeeper checks every read against the list.
- Its owner’s page
- support.apple.com/en-us/119829
Keep it out
User-agent: Applebot Disallow: /
Or only part of the site: Disallow: /private/ under the same User-agent line.
On tidekeeper.eu
Applebot read tidekeeper.eu 609 times in the last 30 days, as tidekeeper counts its own site, from its server.