{
  "id": "crawlers/applebot",
  "url": "https://www.proxies.sx/crawlers/applebot",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "reviewed": "2026-09-06",
  "name": "Applebot",
  "operator": "Apple",
  "operatorUrl": "https://www.apple.com",
  "docsUrl": "https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829",
  "purpose": "Search engine crawler",
  "userAgentToken": "Applebot",
  "fullUserAgentExample": "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)",
  "robotsToken": "Applebot",
  "robotsTokenIsPolicyOnly": false,
  "honorsRobotsTxt": "yes",
  "verificationMethod": "Apple documents two methods. Reverse DNS: the IP should resolve to a host within *.applebot.apple.com, and a forward lookup of that hostname should return the same IP (Apple's example: 17.58.101.179 resolves to 17-58-101-179.applebot.apple.com, which resolves back to 17.58.101.179). IP matching: compare the address against the CIDR prefixes published at https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json.",
  "reverseDnsSuffix": ".applebot.apple.com",
  "ipRanges": {
    "sourceUrl": "https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json",
    "prefixes": 33,
    "ipv4": 33,
    "ipv6": 0,
    "sha256": "b845bdfb29aae14da031eab82d7f366dd295f8ea4bc4ef5fe3ce850c94b779b8"
  },
  "sources": [
    "https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829",
    "https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json"
  ]
}