Websites blocking Applebot-Extended

Apple's robots.txt control token for AI training. Disallowing it opts a site's content out of training Apple's foundation models while leaving Applebot's search functions, such as Siri and Spotlight, unaffected.

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9.44% block Applebot-Extended 2.35 million of 24.91 million domains with a known robots.txt policy 6.05% block it by name 1.51 million domains, the rest inherit a blanket * block 2.52% restrict it by name 627K domains name it and close some of its paths 8.94% name it in robots.txt 2.23 million domains give it rules of their own

Data for Aug 2026. All four percentages divide by the same 24.91 million domains. Blocked counts both explicit User-agent: Applebot-Extended blocks and blanket * blocks the crawler inherits.

Historical mentions, HTTP Archive

Share of sites in each month's HTTP Archive crawl whose robots.txt named Applebot-Extended. This series counts mentions only (the archive keeps no rule text), comes from a different population than our own crawl above, and the two are never merged.

High-authority sites blocking Applebot-Extended by name

Domain OPROpen Page Rank Blocking since
fbcdn.net 9.40/10 Aug 2026
nytimes.com 9.28/10 Aug 2026
tumblr.com 9.27/10 Aug 2026
bbc.com 9.15/10 Aug 2026
cookielaw.org 9.10/10 Aug 2026
usatoday.com 9.08/10 Aug 2026
tripadvisor.com 9.05/10 Aug 2026
bizjournals.com 9.04/10 Aug 2026
msn.com 9.04/10 Aug 2026
mayoclinic.org 9.04/10 Aug 2026
pexels.com 9.03/10 Aug 2026
theatlantic.com 9.01/10 Aug 2026
investopedia.com 9.01/10 Aug 2026
hugedomains.com 9.00/10 Aug 2026
uk.com 9.00/10 Aug 2026
patreon.com 8.99/10 Aug 2026
academia.edu 8.99/10 Aug 2026
healthline.com 8.98/10 Aug 2026
ebay.com 8.95/10 Aug 2026
science.org 8.95/10 Aug 2026
usgs.gov 8.95/10 Aug 2026
quora.com 8.92/10 Aug 2026
utexas.edu 8.92/10 Aug 2026
huffpost.com 8.91/10 Aug 2026
newyorker.com 8.90/10 Aug 2026
mashable.com 8.87/10 Aug 2026
francetvinfo.fr 8.87/10 Aug 2026
jsfiddle.net 8.86/10 Aug 2026
nami.org 8.86/10 Aug 2026
smh.com.au 8.86/10 Aug 2026

Sites whose robots.txt names Applebot-Extended (or a legacy alias) with a full block, ranked by Open Page Rank. Sites blocking every crawler with a blanket * rule are counted above but not listed here. Since dates start at our first observation of the rule.

Restricting some paths

Crawler first seen in the wild around Jun 2024. How to block it and what each state means is on the methodology page.

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