Allow or block Applebot-Extended on Webflow: robots.txt in Site settings

In Site settings → SEO → Indexing, add a “User-agent: Applebot-Extended” group with “Disallow: /” to the robots.txt rules, save, and publish the site.

This response

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

Applebot-Extended, and where Webflow 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.

Webflow builds robots.txt from the rules entered in Site settings, and publishes it with the site.

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

Saving is not publishing. The rule is in the setting as soon as it is saved and on the live site only after the next publish.

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 Webflow?

In Site settings → SEO → Indexing, add a “User-agent: Applebot-Extended” group with “Disallow: /” to the robots.txt rules, save, and publish the site.

How do I allow Applebot-Extended on Webflow?

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 Webflow 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 Webflow's own documentation on 1 October 2026

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