#applebot

Once again, the ID10TS at Apple attempted a targeted content scrape on my DLCC website using their A.I. Applebot.

This attempt, spanning several hours and using rotating IP addresses, targeted several screen shot images in a specific Screen Shot Gallery (ssg) exhibit. They tried for 10 of the 14 images that used to be in this exhibit. They also tried for 3 of the 4 photos that used to be featured on my website's My Vintage Digital Camera (mvdc) page.

There must exist out in the ether a listing of every file (over 26,000) that was in my DLCC website. It would be interesting to know just how many ID10TS are accessing/sharing this listing, because it isn't doing any of them any good, other than for nostalgia... 😆

Since I took down all my DLCC website content last Halloween, leaving behind only a marker page with a link to this Tumblr account, all Apple's attempts netted them were 404 (not found) errors. 😁

For this, Apple receives a DLCC ID10T AWARD!!! 😆😆😆

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Tim Bradshaw and Patrick McGee for Financial Times:

In a little-noticed change to the latest version of the…

在 Hacker News Daily 上翻到的：「About Applebot」，另外 Hacker News 上的討論也蠻有趣的，可以看看：「Applebot (support.apple.com)」。

目前的用途是用在 Siri 之類的 bot：

Applebot is the web crawler for Apple. Products like Siri and Spotlight Suggestions use Applebot.

裡面有提到辨識方式，IP 會使用 17.0.0.0/8，反解會是 *.applebot.apple.com：

Traffic coming from Applebot is identified by its user agent, and reverse DNS shows it in the *.applebot.apple.com…