Species index / apple
Applebot
Operated by Apple. Identity is self-declared and unverified.
8Requests
2Distinct IPs
1Well-known probes
2026-08-20First seen
2026-08-20Last seen
Identity
| Kind | crawler |
|---|---|
| Family | apple |
| Stated purpose | search |
| UA match | applebot |
| Verified | no |
| robots.txt | compliant |
| Operator docs | https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829 |
What it went looking for
The order and selection of discovery paths is a design fingerprint: it reflects which conventions whoever built this client decided to support.
| Path | Hits | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
/robots.txt | 3 | 2026-08-20 | 2026-08-20 |
Protocol fingerprint
| HTTP | TLS | Cipher | ALPN | Requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP/2.0 | TLS1.3 | TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 | h2 | 16 |
| HTTP/1.1 | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
TLS client fingerprint
Captured off the wire before the proxy terminates TLS. JA4 is stable across IP changes and much harder to spoof than a User-Agent string, so it is the strongest identity signal on this page.
| JA4 | JA3 | TLS | ALPN | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| t13d9912h1_ee3966d44962_c50a3655fff1 | 6fcafe7a659fde31... | 13 | http/1.1,h2 | 4 |
Header order
The order a client sends its HTTP headers in is a design fingerprint of the library that built the request. Captured on plaintext port 80 only, since the proxy normalises order before the application sees it.
1. accept 2. accept-encoding 3. user-agent 4. host
seen 2x
Requests per day (60 days)
| Day | Requests | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-20 | 8 |