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Apple bot verification

Apple publishes an IP allow-list for Applebot. DutyRadar reports a verdict per request and surfaces the Applebot-Extended robots.txt opt-out where relevant.

Bots covered

Applebot Traditional bot ◑ IP-verified

Applebot-Extended Training crawler ◑ IP-verified

Sample request

curl -X POST https://api.dutyradar.com/v1/classify \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer dr_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.6 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1)"}'

Sample response

{
  "data": {
    "verdict": "verified_bot",
    "operator": "apple",
    "bot": {
      "name": "Applebot"
    },
    "category": "traditional_bot"
  },
  "error": null
}

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