Allow or block Applebot-Extended on Adobe Commerce (Magento): Search Engine Robots in the Admin

In the Admin open Content → Design → Configuration → Edit → Search Engine Robots, add a “User-agent: Applebot-Extended” group with “Disallow: /” to the custom instructions, and save the configuration.

This response

You are ClaudeBot (Anthropic). Citable recognised you as an AI agent, so this is https://getcitable.in/crawlers/applebot-extended/magento with the UI removed — the content only. A browser asking for the same address gets the full designed page.

Applebot-Extended, and where Adobe Commerce (Magento) keeps the rule

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.

Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source generate robots.txt from the Search Engine Robots section of the design configuration.

Step by step

What to paste

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.

Refuse Applebot-Extended:

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

Allow Applebot-Extended:

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

What trips people up

On Adobe Commerce cloud projects, robots.txt keeps showing the default content until indexing by search engines is enabled for the environment. A saved rule that never appears is usually this.

Asked, or actually refused?

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.

Check it yourself

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

Questions

How do I block Applebot-Extended on Adobe Commerce (Magento)?

In the Admin open Content → Design → Configuration → Edit → Search Engine Robots, add a “User-agent: Applebot-Extended” group with “Disallow: /” to the custom instructions, and save the configuration.

How do I allow Applebot-Extended on Adobe Commerce (Magento)?

A crawler that robots.txt does not name follows the * group, so Applebot-Extended needs no rule to be allowed. To allow it by name, add the Allow block.

Can Adobe Commerce (Magento) actually stop Applebot-Extended, or only ask 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.

Does a rule for Applebot-Extended affect Googlebot or my Google rankings?

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.

Checked against Adobe Commerce (Magento)'s own documentation on 1 October 2026

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