chore: keeps Applebot-Extended in favor of Applebot as the latter is simply for search

edge-functions/block-bots.js

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ const botUas = [
   'AdsBot-Google',
   'Amazonbot',
   'anthropic-ai',
-  'Applebot',
   'Applebot-Extended',
   'AwarioRssBot',
   'AwarioSmartBot',

robots.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 User-agent: AdsBot-Google
 User-agent: Amazonbot
 User-agent: anthropic-ai
-User-agent: Applebot
 User-agent: Applebot-Extended
 User-agent: AwarioRssBot
 User-agent: AwarioSmartBot

servers/apache.conf

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # for apache2.conf or .htaccess; intended to block via user agent string
 RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AdsBot-Google|Amazonbot|anthropic-ai|Applebot|Applebot-Extended|AwarioRssBot|AwarioSmartBot|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT-User|ClaudeBot|Claude-Web|cohere-ai|DataForSeoBot|Diffbot|FacebookBot|FriendlyCrawler|Google-Extended|GoogleOther|GPTBot|img2dataset|ImagesiftBot|magpie-crawler|Meltwater|omgili|omgilibot|peer39_crawler|peer39_crawler/1.0|PerplexityBot|PiplBot|scoop.it|Seekr|YouBot) [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AdsBot-Google|Amazonbot|anthropic-ai|Applebot-Extended|AwarioRssBot|AwarioSmartBot|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT-User|ClaudeBot|Claude-Web|cohere-ai|DataForSeoBot|Diffbot|FacebookBot|FriendlyCrawler|Google-Extended|GoogleOther|GPTBot|img2dataset|ImagesiftBot|magpie-crawler|Meltwater|omgili|omgilibot|peer39_crawler|peer39_crawler/1.0|PerplexityBot|PiplBot|scoop.it|Seekr|YouBot) [NC]
 RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

servers/cloudflare-waf-expression.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
-(http.user_agent contains "AdsBot-Google") or (http.user_agent contains "Amazonbot") or (http.user_agent contains "anthropic-ai") or (http.user_agent contains "Applebot") or (http.user_agent contains "Bytespider") or (http.user_agent contains "CCBot") or (http.user_agent contains "ChatGPT-User") or (http.user_agent contains "ClaudeBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Claude-Web") or (http.user_agent contains "cohere-ai") or (http.user_agent contains "DataForSeoBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Diffbot") or (http.user_agent contains "FacebookBot") or (http.user_agent contains "FriendlyCrawler") or (http.user_agent contains "Google-Extended") or (http.user_agent contains "GoogleOther") or (http.user_agent contains "GPTBot") or (http.user_agent contains "img2dataset") or (http.user_agent contains "ImagesiftBot") or (http.user_agent contains "magpie-crawler") or (http.user_agent contains "Meltwater") or (http.user_agent contains "omgili") or (http.user_agent contains "omgilibot") or (http.user_agent contains "peer39_crawler") or (http.user_agent contains "PerplexityBot") or (http.user_agent contains "PiplBot") or (http.user_agent contains "scoop.it") or (http.user_agent contains "Seekr") or (http.user_agent contains "YouBot")
+(http.user_agent contains "AdsBot-Google") or (http.user_agent contains "Amazonbot") or (http.user_agent contains "anthropic-ai") or (http.user_agent contains "Applebot-Extended") or (http.user_agent contains "Bytespider") or (http.user_agent contains "CCBot") or (http.user_agent contains "ChatGPT-User") or (http.user_agent contains "ClaudeBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Claude-Web") or (http.user_agent contains "cohere-ai") or (http.user_agent contains "DataForSeoBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Diffbot") or (http.user_agent contains "FacebookBot") or (http.user_agent contains "FriendlyCrawler") or (http.user_agent contains "Google-Extended") or (http.user_agent contains "GoogleOther") or (http.user_agent contains "GPTBot") or (http.user_agent contains "img2dataset") or (http.user_agent contains "ImagesiftBot") or (http.user_agent contains "magpie-crawler") or (http.user_agent contains "Meltwater") or (http.user_agent contains "omgili") or (http.user_agent contains "omgilibot") or (http.user_agent contains "peer39_crawler") or (http.user_agent contains "PerplexityBot") or (http.user_agent contains "PiplBot") or (http.user_agent contains "scoop.it") or (http.user_agent contains "Seekr") or (http.user_agent contains "YouBot")

servers/nginx.conf

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # for nginx.conf; intended to block via user agent string
 # note: we recommend following the approach outlined here https://underlap.org/nginx-robot-access
 # and contributing if you're able: https://github.com/glyn/nginx_robot_access
-if ($http_user_agent ~* (AdsBot-Google|Amazonbot|anthropic-ai|Applebot|Applebot-Extended|AwarioRssBot|AwarioSmartBot|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT-User|ClaudeBot|Claude-Web|cohere-ai|DataForSeoBot|Diffbot|FacebookBot|FriendlyCrawler|Google-Extended|GoogleOther|GPTBot|img2dataset|ImagesiftBot|magpie-crawler|Meltwater|omgili|omgilibot|peer39_crawler|peer39_crawler/1.0|PerplexityBot|PiplBot|scoop.it|Seekr|YouBot)) {
+if ($http_user_agent ~* (AdsBot-Google|Amazonbot|anthropic-ai|Applebot-Extended|AwarioRssBot|AwarioSmartBot|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT-User|ClaudeBot|Claude-Web|cohere-ai|DataForSeoBot|Diffbot|FacebookBot|FriendlyCrawler|Google-Extended|GoogleOther|GPTBot|img2dataset|ImagesiftBot|magpie-crawler|Meltwater|omgili|omgilibot|peer39_crawler|peer39_crawler/1.0|PerplexityBot|PiplBot|scoop.it|Seekr|YouBot)) {
   return 403;
 }

table-of-bot-metrics.md

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 | AdsBot-Google   | Google  | Yes (Exceptions for Dynamic Search Ads) | Analyzes website content for ad relevancy, improves ad serving for Google Ads. Data anonymized according to [Google's Privacy Policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy). Unclear on data retention or use by other products. | Varies depending on campaign activity and website updates. Crawls optimized to minimize impact, specific frequency not public. | Web crawler by Google Ads to analyze websites for ad effectiveness and ensure ad relevancy to webpage content. |
 |Amazonbot      | Amazon | Yes | Service improvement and enabling answers for Alexa users. | No information provided. | Includes references to crawled website when surfacing answers via Alexa; does not clearly outline other uses. |
 |anthropic-ai  | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. |
-|Applebot      | Apple         | Yes | Indexes sites to provide answers and search results for Siri users. | Irregular and may be prompted by user queries. | Used to answer queries from users; may included references to the indexed site. |
 |Applebot-Extended   |         |                       |          |                  |             |
 |AwarioRssBot   |         |                       |          |                  |             |
 |AwarioSmartBot |         |                       |          |                  |             |