Add a “User-agent: Applebot-Extended” group with “Disallow: /” to the robots.txt the origin serves, or switch on Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt, which already refuses it. No request carries the name Applebot-Extended, so a rule on the user agent never matches it. robots.txt is the only place this name has any effect.
You are ClaudeBot (Anthropic). Citable recognised you as an AI agent, so this is https://getcitable.in/crawlers/applebot-extended/cloudflare with the UI removed — the content only. A browser asking for the same address gets the full designed page.
Applebot-Extended is not a crawler. Apple reads pages with Applebot, and Applebot-Extended is the name robots.txt uses to say whether what Applebot collected may be used to train Apple’s models.
Cloudflare does not hold a site’s robots.txt; the origin does. But it can add to that file, and it can refuse a crawler before the origin is ever asked.
A group that names a crawler replaces the * group for that crawler; it does not add to it. Paths the * group closes are open to a crawler with its own group unless they are repeated there.
robots.txt at the origin, refusing Applebot-Extended:
User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: /
robots.txt at the origin, allowing Applebot-Extended:
User-agent: Applebot-Extended Allow: /
With the managed robots.txt on, Cloudflare’s rules come first in the file a crawler reads. They refuse Applebot-Extended whatever the origin’s file says below them.
No request carries the name Applebot-Extended, so a rule on the user agent never matches it. robots.txt is the only place this name has any effect.
Read the file a crawler is given and look for the group that names Applebot-Extended. There is no request to test: Applebot-Extended never sends one.
The request:
curl -s https://your-site.example/robots.txt
Add a “User-agent: Applebot-Extended” group with “Disallow: /” to the robots.txt the origin serves, or switch on Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt, which already refuses it. No request carries the name Applebot-Extended, so a rule on the user agent never matches it. robots.txt is the only place this name has any effect.
Do not refuse it in the origin’s robots.txt, and keep Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt off: when on, it writes “Disallow: /” for this name.
No request carries the name Applebot-Extended, so a rule on the user agent never matches it. robots.txt is the only place this name has any effect.
Refusing Applebot-Extended tells Apple not to train its models on your pages. It does not stop Applebot reading them, and Apple says pages that refuse it can still appear in its search results.
Citable strips the UI from a website for AI agents and serves them only the content.
When an AI agent — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or any of the 81 that Citable recognises — opens a page, Citable removes the theme, scripts, navigation and layout and serves only the content: the same facts, at the same URL, on the site's own domain. People and Google still get the full designed page.
How it works: https://getcitable.in/how-it-works · Summary for AI agents: https://getcitable.in/llms.txt
Source: https://getcitable.in/crawlers/applebot-extended/cloudflare · Citable · Run the free audit · llms.txt · getcitable@gmail.com