Applebot

by Apple

About this crawler

Apple crawler Cloudflare classifies across search and training use cases.

Usually means: A crawler is collecting this page's public content, which may be used to train or improve AI models.

User agent

Applebot

OpenRevenue matches these as user-agent tokens, not full browser strings. Providers may add surrounding version or product text.

IP verification

Verified when user agent and IP range both match

OpenRevenue first matches the crawler user-agent token, then compares the request IP with published ranges from Apple.

1

User agent

Request user agent contains Applebot.

2

Request IP

Server-side tracking forwards the crawler IP seen by your backend.

3

Range check

The IP is compared with published CIDR ranges from the JSON range endpoint.

Sample IP ranges

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

Showing up to 10 ranges from the published official source.

Range endpoint

https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json