Applebot
Applebot is assigned to the AI category by BotScope. Detection is based on the user-agent string. Current pattern:
Applebot(?!-Extended)
AI training crawlers collect web content as training material for large language models. They bring no direct traffic — your content ends up in the model and influences future AI answers. Most honour robots.txt, some are more aggressive than search engine crawlers.
Once Applebot shows up in your logs, BotScope lets you analyze its crawl paths, status codes, IP distribution and temporal activity — by hour, day or week.
robots.txt directive for Applebot
If you don't want Applebot to crawl your site, add the following block to your /robots.txt. This works only for bots that honour robots.txt — malicious crawlers ignore it.
User-agent: Applebot Disallow: /
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