{"id":3068,"date":"2015-05-08T13:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2015-05-08T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:28:02","slug":"hello-applebot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/05\/08\/hello-applebot","title":{"rendered":"Hello Applebot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw lots of this in the access logs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<tt>17.142.151.101 - - [08\/May\/2015:10:37:27 -0700] \"GET \/blog\/archives\/2015\/02\/03\/here-and-defending-your-trademarks HTTP\/1.1\" 200 12324 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit\/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version\/8.0.2 Safari\/600.2.5 (Applebot\/0.1; +http:\/\/www.apple.com\/go\/applebot)\"<\/tt>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So its real \u2013 there is an Applebot, and it\u2019s written in Go. Apple also has <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT204683\">documentation<\/a>\u00a0about it now. And of course, you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2015\/05\/06\/applebot\">Gruber\u2019s piece<\/a>. Would be nice to find out ways to feed more info to Siri (I mean, it doesn\u2019t work as well as when its in the USA\u2026).<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Hello%20Applebot&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2015%2F05%2F08%2Fhello-applebot&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Apple also has documentation\u00a0about it now. And of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Hello%20Applebot&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2015%2F05%2F08%2Fhello-applebot&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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