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title: "What is Applebot? Apple's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "Apple crawler for Siri and Spotlight Suggestions, spanning search and training use."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/applebot
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[Home](/) [Bot Directory](/bot-directory) Applebot

# 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`

Free tools

[Verify a Applebot request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=applebot) [Check if your site allows Applebot](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

## How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

-   [https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json](https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json)

Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Sep 4, 2026

`17.241.208.160/27``17.241.193.160/27``17.241.200.160/27``17.22.237.0/24``17.22.245.0/24``17.22.253.0/24``17.241.75.0/24``17.241.219.0/24``17.241.227.0/24``17.246.15.0/24`

1 IP source configured

Reverse DNS suffixes

`.applebot.apple.com`

[Apple's page for Applebot](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829)

## Sources

-   [Apple crawler docs](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829)
-   [Published IP ranges](https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json)

## More from Apple

[

Applebot-Extended

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

](/bot-directory/applebot-extended)

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Amazonbot

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Amazon crawler used to improve Alexa answers and Amazon products.

](/bot-directory/amazonbot)[

Amzn-SearchBot

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Amazon crawler that makes content eligible for Amazon search experiences.

](/bot-directory/amzn-searchbot)[

Baiduspider

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Baidu's crawler for its search index.

](/bot-directory/baiduspider)[

Bingbot

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](/bot-directory/bingbot)

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