Apple · Indexing

Applebot

Identify Applebot by its user agent. Check request identity, review robots.txt controls and track visits in Aiola Analytics.

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Key facts

User-agent token: Applebot
Indexing: Crawled for AI or search indexing.
Apple publishes official IP ranges; verify requests against them.

What Applebot is

Applebot supplies Apple search experiences and can also collect data for foundation-model training and AI answer grounding. Applebot-Extended controls training use, while nosnippet controls use in generated web answers.

In Aiola's taxonomy, Indexing means crawled for ai or search indexing.

Applebot user agent

Look for the match token inside the complete HTTP User-Agent header. Tokens can be spoofed, so use the network checks below for authentication.

Full example User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)
Case-insensitive match token
Applebot

Official IP ranges

Apple publishes an official IP range list. This cached snapshot contains 24 CIDR prefixes, last fetched 2026-10-23. Open the live source

Official IP range snapshot
17.166.150.0/24
17.166.151.0/24
17.166.152.0/24
17.166.153.0/24
17.166.154.0/24
17.166.155.0/24
17.166.192.48/28
17.166.20.0/24
17.166.21.0/24
17.166.22.0/24
17.166.23.0/24
17.166.232.0/24
17.166.233.0/24
17.166.234.0/24
17.166.235.0/24
17.166.236.0/24
17.166.237.0/24
17.166.24.0/24
17.166.240.48/28
17.166.248.48/28
17.166.25.0/24
17.241.193.160/27
17.241.200.160/27
17.241.208.160/27

Verify a Applebot request

For Applebot, compare the source IP from your trusted edge or server against Apple’s current published prefixes.

Test one CIDR in Python (replace REQUEST_IP)
python3 -c 'import ipaddress; print(ipaddress.ip_address("REQUEST_IP") in ipaddress.ip_network("17.166.150.0/24"))'

Test every current prefix in the vendor feed and re-fetch it regularly. This cached snapshot is evidence of publication, not a permanent firewall list.

Control Applebot with robots.txt

Apple documents crawler controls for this bot family. Robots.txt can direct cooperative crawling, but it cannot prove that a request is authentic.

Allow Applebot
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Block Applebot
User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

Read official crawler documentation

Aiola Analytics

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Aiola tracks 70 AI, search and link-preview crawlers next to your human traffic. See when Applebot arrives, which pages it requests and how that changes over time. Hosted Analytics needs Pro or a trial.

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