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Applebot

by Apple

Search engine UA + IP range

Crawls pages for a traditional search index, which is what lets them rank.

Apple crawler for Siri and Spotlight Suggestions, spanning search and training use.

What it usually means

Apple is crawling this page to support Siri answers and Spotlight results across its devices.

How to identify it

User-Agent tokens
applebot
robots.txt stanza
User-agent: Applebot

How it's verified

Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Jul 20, 2026
17.241.208.160/2717.241.193.160/2717.241.200.160/2717.22.237.0/2417.22.245.0/2417.22.253.0/2417.241.75.0/2417.241.219.0/2417.241.227.0/2417.246.15.0/24

1 IP source configured

Reverse DNS suffixes
.applebot.apple.com
Apple's page for Applebot

Sources

More from Apple

Applebot-Extended

Robots token controlling whether Apple may use crawled content for Apple Intelligence training.

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