Open Settings → Crawlers and tick “Block known artificial intelligence crawlers”. That refuses Applebot-Extended together with every other crawler on Squarespace’s list; it cannot be refused on its own.
You are ClaudeBot (Anthropic). Citable recognised you as an AI agent, so this is https://getcitable.in/crawlers/applebot-extended/squarespace 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.
Squarespace writes robots.txt itself and does not let it be edited. The one control is a checkbox that adds a fixed list of AI crawlers to it.
The box is all or nothing. Ticking it to refuse Applebot-Extended also refuses the other 25 names on Squarespace’s list: AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, aiHitBot, Amazonbot, anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, ClaudeBot, cohere-ai, cohere-training-data-crawler, DuckAssistBot, FacebookBot, Google-Extended, GoogleOther, GoogleOther-Image, GoogleOther-Video, GPTBot, img2dataset, Meta-ExternalAgent, MyCentralAIScraperBot, omgili, omgilibot, Quora-Bot, TikTokSpider, YouBot.
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
Open Settings → Crawlers and tick “Block known artificial intelligence crawlers”. That refuses Applebot-Extended together with every other crawler on Squarespace’s list; it cannot be refused on its own.
Leave “Block known artificial intelligence crawlers” unticked in Settings → Crawlers. It is unticked by default.
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/squarespace · Citable · Run the free audit · llms.txt · getcitable@gmail.com