Applebot is the web crawler for Apple, used by products including Siri and Spotlight Suggestions. It respects customary robots.txt rules and robots meta tags. It originates in the 17.0.0.0 net block.
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How to test iOS 9 Search API indexing with Web Markup?
I know, there is App Search API Validation Tool which can tell you "Yeah, yeah, it's all good with your content and your users will be able to discover it if it will become popular and bla bla bla...", but is there any flag/setting/sandbox mode…
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How do I know if Applebot started indexing my site?
We've implemented everything apple requires for making our site's content available in Spotlight and Safari search results:
web markup
universal links
entitlements + associations
But the site still won't appear in spotlight or safari search.
Is…
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Why can't Applebot crawl my website?
I am trying to set-up universal links for an iOS app.
The Apple search validator keeps failing when I try to validate the file apple-app-site-association with error message:
Unable to parse that webpage URL. Try a different URL.
The file content is…
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App search API validation failed for my schema/Organization?
I am trying to validate my schema for organization markup. (https://search.developer.apple.com/appsearch-validation-tool)
I am using JSON-LD markup as below.