Allow or block Applebot-Extended on Wix: the Robots.txt Editor

In the dashboard open SEO & GEO → Tools and settings → Robots.txt Editor → View File, add a “User-agent: Applebot-Extended” group with “Disallow: /”, and save.

This response

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

Applebot-Extended, and where Wix 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.

Wix generates robots.txt and lets the site’s owner edit it in the Robots.txt Editor in the dashboard.

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

The editor holds the whole file. Add to what is there: replacing its contents removes Wix’s own default rules, and Reset to Default removes yours.

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 Wix?

In the dashboard open SEO & GEO → Tools and settings → Robots.txt Editor → View File, add a “User-agent: Applebot-Extended” group with “Disallow: /”, and save.

How do I allow Applebot-Extended on Wix?

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 Wix 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 Wix's own documentation on 1 October 2026

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About Citable

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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/wix · Citable · Run the free audit · llms.txt · getcitable@gmail.com