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Applebot Crawler Simulator

Test how Apple's crawler sees your website. Optimize for Siri suggestions, Spotlight search, and Safari's features.

Test your site with Applebot

Enter your URL to see how Applebot views your website.

What is Applebot?

Applebot is Apple's web crawler used to power Siri suggestions, Spotlight search on Mac and iOS, Safari's search suggestions, and Apple News. With billions of Apple devices in use, Applebot visibility impacts a massive user base. Applebot-Extended is used for Apple Intelligence features.

Why Allow Applebot?

Appear in Siri web suggestions
Show up in Spotlight search on Mac and iOS
Power Safari's search suggestions
Be included in Apple News aggregation
Support Apple Intelligence features

Applebot robots.txt Configuration

Control how Applebot accesses your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain.

Allow Applebot

# Allow Applebot
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

Block Applebot

# Block Applebot
User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

# Block Apple Intelligence only
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)

Applebot FAQ

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