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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does apple.com block AI crawlers?

No. apple.com’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site. It also blocks Baiduspider among search engines.

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.apple.com/robots.txt · 44 lines
llms.txt: none
Checked: 9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

Every bot, and the line that decides

Search engines

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`Googlebot`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Blocked	line 11 · `Disallow: /*` under `User-agent: Baiduspider`

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Google-Extended`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DotBot`	Moz	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

View www.apple.com/robots.txt · 44 lines

1# robots.txt for https://www.apple.com/

3User-agent: *

4Disallow: /*shop/browse/overlay/*

5Disallow: /*shop/iphone/payments/overlay/*

6Disallow: /cn/*/aow/*

7Disallow: /tmall*

8Allow: /ac/globalnav/2.0/*/images/ac-globalnav/globalnav/search/*

10User-agent: Baiduspider

11Disallow: /*

12Allow: /cn/*

13Allow: /cn-edu/*

14Allow: /cn-k12/*

16User-agent: HaoSouSpider

17Disallow: /*

18Allow: /cn/*

19Allow: /cn-edu/*

20Allow: /cn-k12/*

22User-agent: Sogou web spider

23Disallow: /*

24Allow: /cn/*

25Allow: /cn-k12/*

27User-agent: Sogou inst spider

28Disallow: /*

29Allow: /cn/*

30Allow: /cn-k12/*

32User-agent: Sogou spider2

33Disallow: /*

34Allow: /cn/*

35Allow: /cn-k12/*

37#DaumWebMasterTool:6ff40e0f09564a9d4e3bc80e7cbde7c196677a2f5f610eb9c029836774f9a8e9:D9a8IEFAzmC/NWsQ3tB0Wg==

39Sitemap: https://www.apple.com/shop/sitemap.xml

40Sitemap: https://www.apple.com/autopush/sitemap/sitemap-index.xml

41Sitemap: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/sitemap.xml

42Sitemap: https://www.apple.com/retail/sitemap/sitemap.xml

43Sitemap: https://www.apple.com/today/sitemap-index.xml

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what apple.com asks of crawlers. A firewall or CDN can still refuse a bot that robots.txt allows. The live check requests the page as each bot and shows the status it gets.

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History

19 October 2026: first checked.

Questions

Does apple.com block GPTBot?

No. apple.com’s robots.txt lets GPTBot crawl the site. GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does apple.com block ClaudeBot?

No. apple.com’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does apple.com block Google-Extended?

No. apple.com’s robots.txt lets Google-Extended crawl the site. Google-Extended is the token that controls whether Google may use pages for Gemini training and grounding; it doesn’t affect Google Search. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does apple.com block PerplexityBot?

No. apple.com’s robots.txt lets PerplexityBot crawl the site. PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find apple.com?

Yes. apple.com’s robots.txt lets OAI-SearchBot crawl the site. OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.