Applebot-Extended

Last updated 20 hours ago.

What is Applebot-Extended?

About

Apple-Extended is used to train Apple’s foundation LLM models powering generative AI features across Apple products, including Apple Intelligence, Services, and Developer Tools.

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You can see when Applebot-Extended visits your website using the API or WordPress plugin.

Detail

Operator Apple
Documentation http://apple.com/go/applebot

Type

AI Data Scraper
Downloads web content to train AI models

Expected Behavior

It's generally unclear how AI data scrapers choose which websites to crawl and how often to crawl them. They might choose to visits websites with a higher information density more frequently, depending on the type of AI models they're training. For example, it would make sense that an agent training an LLM (Large Language Model) would favor sites with a lot of regularly updating text content.

Insights

Applebot-Extended's Activity on Your Website

Half of your traffic probably comes from artificial agents, and there are more of them every day. Track their activity with the API or WordPress plugin.

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Other Websites

10%
of top websites are currently blocking Applebot-Extended in some way
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Access Control

Should I Block Applebot-Extended?

It's up to you. AI data scrapers usually download publicly available internet content, which is freely accessible by default. However, you might want to block them if you're concerned about attribution or how your creative work could be used in the resulting AI model.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token Description
Applebot-Extended Should match instances of Applebot-Extended

You can block Applebot-Extended or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This should block Applebot-Extended

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

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