apple.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, apple.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

Panel: top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt: ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.apple.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 3115f45c98cfa193… · view as recorded
The * group: allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agent	Verdict	How
GPTBot	allows	through the * group
OAI-SearchBot	allows	through the * group
ChatGPT-User	allows	through the * group
ClaudeBot	allows	through the * group
Claude-SearchBot	allows	through the * group
Claude-User	allows	through the * group
PerplexityBot	allows	through the * group
Perplexity-User	allows	through the * group
Googlebot	allows	through the * group
Google-Extended	allows	through the * group
Applebot-Extended	allows	through the * group
CCBot	allows	through the * group
Bytespider	allows	through the * group
Meta-ExternalAgent	allows	through the * group
Amazonbot	allows	through the * group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txt	no
Publishes /ai.txt	no
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.json	no
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)	no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)	no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal	no
Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header)	no
Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)	no
Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)	no
Sends noai / noimageai directives	no
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)	no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 1204f3511109c772…

# robots.txt for http://www.apple.com/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*/includes/*
Disallow: /*/retail/availability*
Disallow: /*/retail/availabilitySearch*
Disallow: /*/retail/pickupEligibility*
Disallow: /*/shop/signed_in_account*
Disallow: /*/shop/sign_in*
Disallow: /*/shop/sign_out*
Disallow: /*/shop/*WebObjects/*
Disallow: /*/shop/1-800-MY-APPLE/*
Disallow: /*/shop/answer/vote*
Disallow: /*/shop/bag*
Disallow: /*/shop/browse/overlay/*
Disallow: /*/shop/browse/ribbon/*
Disallow: /*/shop/browse/campaigns/mobile_overlay*
Disallow: /*/shop/button_availability*
Disallow: /*/shop/favorites*
Disallow: /*/shop/iphone/payments/overlay/*
Disallow: /*/shop/mobile/olss_error*
Disallow: /*/shop/mobilex/*
Disallow: /*/shop/order/*
Disallow: /*/shop/question/answer/report*
Disallow: /*/shop/question/subscribe*
Disallow: /*/shop/question/unsubscribe/
Disallow: /*/shop/review/vote*
Disallow: /*/shop/reviews/report*
Disallow: /*/shop/rs-mvt/rel/*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentry*
Disallow: /*/shop/socialsharing/*
Disallow: /*/shop/store/feeds/*
Disallow: /*/shop/variationSelection
Disallow: /*_adc_*/shop/
Disallow: /*_aoc_*/shop/
Disallow: /*_edu_*/shop/
Disallow: /*_enterprise*/shop/
Disallow: /*_internal-epp-discounted*/shop/
Disallow: /*_k12nonbts*/shop/
Disallow: /*_kiosk*/shop/
Disallow: /*_nonbts*/shop/
Disallow: /*_qpromo*/shop/
Disallow: /*_refurb-discounted*/shop/
Disallow: /cn/se/*
Disallow: /go/awards/*
Disallow: /newsroom/notifications/*
Disallow: /retail/availability*
Disallow: /retail/availabilitySearch*
Disallow: /retail/pickupEligibility*
Disallow: /shop/*signed_in_account*
Disallow: /shop/*sign_in*
Disallow: /shop/*sign_out*
Disallow: /shop/*WebObjects/*
Disallow: /shop/1-800-MY-APPLE/*
Disallow: /shop/answer/vote*
Disallow: /shop/bag*
Disallow: /shop/browse/campaigns/mobile_overlay*
Disallow: /shop/button_availability*
Disallow: /shop/favorites*
Disallow: /shop/mobile/olss_error*
Disallow: /shop/mobilex/
Disallow: /shop/order/*
Disallow: /shop/question/answer/report*
Disallow: /shop/question/subscribe*
Disallow: /shop/question/unsubscribe/
Disallow: /shop/review/vote*
Disallow: /shop/reviews/report*
Disallow: /shop/rs-mvt/rel/*
Disallow: /shop/search/*
Disallow: /shop/sentry*
Disallow: /shop/socialsharing/*
Disallow: /shop/store/feeds/*
Disallow: /shop/variationSelection*
Disallow: /tmall*
Allow: /ac/globalnav/2.0/*/images/ac-globalnav/globalnav/search/* 	

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: */product-red/
Disallow: */product-red*
Disallow: /*/retail/availability*
Disallow: /*/retail/availabilitySearch*
Disallow: /*/retail/pickupEligibility*
Disallow: /*/shop/*WebObjects/*
Disallow: /*/shop/1-800-MY-APPLE/*
Disallow: /*/shop/2322-consumer*
Disallow: /*/shop/account/setup*
Disallow: /*/shop/answer/vote*
Disallow: /*/shop/browse/campaigns/mobile_overlay*
Disallow: /*/shop/browse/overlay*
Disallow: /*/shop/button_availability*
Disallow: /*/shop/bag*
Disallow: /*/shop/change_password*
Disallow: /*/shop/checkout*
Disallow: /*/shop/create_account*
Disallow: /*/shop/favorites*
Disallow: /*/shop/identify_user*
Disallow: /*/shop/mobile/checkout/start*
Disallow: /*/shop/mobilex/*
Disallow: /*/shop/question/answer/report*
Disallow: /*/shop/question/subscribe*
Disallow: /*/shop/question/unsubscribe/*
Disallow: /*/shop/review/vote*
Disallow: /*/shop/reviews/report*
Disallow: /*/shop/rs-mvt/rel/*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentry*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentryx/change_password*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentryx/create_account*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentryx/create_account_confirm*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentryx/identify_user*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentryx/sign_in*
Disallow: /*/shop/signed_in_account*
Disallow: /*/shop/sign_in*
Disallow: /*/shop/sign_out*
Disallow: /*/shop/socialsharing/*
Disallow: /*/shop/storeConfig*
Disallow: /*/shop/vieworder*
Disallow: /today*
Disallow: /*/variationSelection*
Disallow: /ae/*
Disallow: /am/*
Disallow: /apple-watch-nike/
Disallow: /apple-watch-hermes/
Disallow: /asia/*
Disallow: /at/*
Disallow: /au/*
Disallow: /befr/*
Disallow: /benl/*
Disallow: /bg/*
Disallow: /bh/*
Disallow: /br/*
Disallow: /bw/*
Disallow: /ca/*
Disallow: /ca/fr/*
Disallow: /cf/*
Disallow: /chde/*
Disallow: /chfr/*
Disallow: /ci/*
Disallow: /cl/*
Disallow: /cm/*
Disallow: /cn/se/*
Disallow: /co/*
Disallow: /cz/*
Disallow: /de/*
Disallow: /dk/*
Disallow: /ee/*
Disallow: /eg/*
Disallow: /es/*
Disallow: /fi/*
Disallow: /fr/*
Disallow: /gn/*
Disallow: /gq/*
Disallow: /go/awards/*
Disallow: /gr/*
Disallow: /gw/*
Disallow: /hk/*
Disallow: /hk/en/*
Disallow: /hk-zh/*
Disallow: /hr/*
Disallow: /hu/*
Disallow: /id/*
Disallow: /ie/*
Disallow: /il/*
Disallow: /in/*
Disallow: /it/*
Disallow: /jo/*
Disallow: /jp/*
Disallow: /ke/*
Disallow: /kr/*
Disallow: /kw/*
Disallow: /la/*
Disallow: /lae/*
Disallow: /li/*
Disallow: /lt/*
Disallow: /lu/*
Disallow: /lv/*
Disallow: /ma/*
Disallow: /md/*
Disallow: /me/*
Disallow: /mg/*
Disallow: /mk/*
Disallow: /ml/*
Disallow: /mo/*
Disallow: /mt/*
Disallow: /mu/*
Disallow: /mx/*
Disallow: /my/*
Disallow: /mz/*
Disallow: /ne/*
Disallow: /newsroom*
Disallow: /ng/*
Disallow: /nl/*
Disallow: /no/*
Disallow: /nz/*
Disallow: /om/*
Disallow: /ph/*
Disallow: /pl/*
Disallow: /pt/*
Disallow: /qa/*
Disallow: /retail/availability*
Disallow: /retail/availabilitySearch*
Disallow: /retail/pickupEligibility*
Disallow: /ro/*
Disallow: /ru/*
Disallow: /sa/*
Disallow: /se/*
Disallow: /sg/*
Disallow: /shop/*
Disallow: /si/*
Disallow: /sk/*
Disallow: /sn/*
Disallow: /today*
Disallow: /th/*
Disallow: /th-en/*
Disallow: /tmall/*
Disallow: /tn/*
Disallow: /tr/*
Disallow: /tw/*
Disallow: /ug/*
Disallow: /uk/*
Disallow: /vn/*
Disallow: /za/*

User-agent: HaoSouSpider
Disallow: */product-red/
Disallow: /*/retail/availability*
Disallow: /*/retail/availabilitySearch*
Disallow: /*/retail/pickupEligibility*
Disallow: /*/shop/*WebObjects/*
Disallow: /*/shop/1-800-MY-APPLE/*
Disallow: /*/shop/2322-consumer*
Disallow: /*/shop/account/setup*
Disallow: /*/shop/answer/vote*
Disallow: /*/shop/browse/campaigns/mobile_overlay*
Disallow: /*/shop/button_availability*
Disallow: /*/shop/bag*
Disallow: /*/shop/change_password*
Disallow: /*/shop/checkout*
Disallow: /*/shop/create_account*
Disallow: /*/shop/favorites*
Disallow: /*/shop/identify_user*
Disallow: /*/shop/mobile/checkout/start*
Disallow: /*/shop/mobilex/*
Disallow: /*/shop/question/answer/report*
Disallow: /*/shop/question/subscribe*
Disallow: /*/shop/question/unsubscribe/*
Disallow: /*/shop/review/vote*
Disallow: /*/shop/reviews/report*
Disallow: /*/shop/rs-mvt/rel/*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentry*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentryx/change_password*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentryx/create_account*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentryx/create_account_confirm*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentryx/identify_user*
Disallow: /*/shop/sentryx/sign_in*
Disallow: /*/shop/signed_in_account*
Disallow: /*/shop/sign_in*
Disallow: /*/shop/sign_out*
Disallow: /*/shop/socialsharing/*
Disallow: /*/shop/storeConfig*
Disallow: /*/shop/variationSelection*
Disallow: /*/shop/vieworder*
Disallow: /apple-watch-nike/
Disallow: /apple-watch-hermes/
Disallow: /cn/se/*
Disallow: /newsroom/notifications/*
Disallow: /retail/availability*
Disallow: /retail/availabilitySearch*
Disallow: /retail/pickupEligibility*
Disallow: /shop/bag*
Disallow: /shop/search/*
Disallow: /tmall/*

Sitemap: https://www.apple.com/shop/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.apple.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.apple.com/retail/sitemap/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.apple.com/today/sitemap-index.xml

robots.txt versions

From	Through	State	Version
2026-10-26	2026-10-27	ok 200	`3115f45c98cf`

Timeline of changes

Date	What changed
No changes since the first observation (2026-10-26).

Reconstructed history (Common Crawl)

From Common Crawl's robots.txt captures: what CCBot was served, one crawl per quarter. A separate series from the daily observations above; a 403 here means Common Crawl was refused, not this ledger.

Crawl	Host	State	GPTBot	OAI-SearchBot	ChatGPT-User	ClaudeBot	Claude-SearchBot	Claude-User	PerplexityBot
2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17	www.apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04	apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40	apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36	apple.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows

Evidence

Every daily observation of apple.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-27: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973493)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/apple.com