Applebot IP addresses

Indexes pages for Siri, Spotlight suggestions and Apple's search features. Apple publishes no address ranges for Applebot; it documents a reverse DNS check instead, which the IP lookup performs when asked for the hostname. This page is that check, spelled out.

Applebot at a glance

Operator	Apple
What it does	Search indexing
Answered as	crawler: Applebot · crawler_kind: search
Published ranges	none — verified by reverse DNS
Reverse DNS domains	applebot.apple.com

How to verify a visitor is Applebot

Look up the PTR record of the request's source address and confirm the name ends in applebot.apple.com. Then resolve that name forward and confirm one of its addresses is the address you started from — a PTR record alone can be set to anything by whoever controls the reverse zone, and the forward confirmation is what makes it proof. Apple documents this check as the way to verify Applebot.

What the API answers for one of its addresses

A lookup of an address whose verified hostname sits under those domains answers is_crawler true, names it in crawler and classes it in crawler_kind. A crawler carries no risk weight, and the datacenter weight is skipped for it: its operator is known and its infrastructure is the point. The hostname check is a live DNS query, so it runs only when the lookup asks for it with hostname: true.

curl https://spaw.co/api/v1/ip \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ip": "203.0.113.9", "hostname": true}'

"is_crawler": true,
"crawler": "Applebot",
"crawler_kind": "search",
"risk_signals": [{ "signal": "datacenter", "weight": 0, "dataset": "datacenter-ranges" }]

A range proves the operator, not intent. Whether Applebot is welcome on a site is a robots.txt decision; this page and the lookup only settle whether a request that says it is Applebot really came from Apple.

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