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Applebot

Scraper / HTTP Client Apple robots.txt behaviour unknown

Apple's web crawler for Siri and search

User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Applebot/0.1)

Allow Applebot in robots.txt

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

Block Applebot in robots.txt

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

Blocking affects this tool's ability to access your site for its stated purpose.

Official documentation: http://www.apple.com/go/applebot

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