is-apple

Verify that a request is from Apple crawlers using Apple's DNS verification steps

You may wish to verify that a web crawler accessing your server is Applebot (or another Apple user-agent) and not spammers or other bots scraping your site while claiming to be Applebot. Since you cannot rely on the User-Agent header which is easily spoofed, you need to use DNS look up to verify that the IP address belongs to Apple.

Install

npm install --save is-apple

Example

const isApple = require('is-apple')

let ip = '17.58.98.240'
isApple(ip).then((outcome) => {
  if (outcome) {
    // it's apple.
  }
}).catch(console.error)

Example with express

app.enable('trust proxy')

app.use((req, res, next) => {
  let ip = req.ip || req.connection.remoteAddress
  isGoogle(ip).then(outcome => {
    if (outcome) {
      res.status(404).text('Nothing to scan') // block apple crawler
    } else {
      next() // it's a user
    }
  })
})

Tests

npm test

License

MIT

Author

Rocco Musolino @roccomuso