AI bots · Search
Amzn-SearchBot
Improves search experiences in Amazon products such as Alexa. Amazon says it does not crawl for generative AI training.
- Run by
- Amazon
- Type
- Search bot
- robots.txt token
Amzn-SearchBot- User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36- Honours robots.txt
- Yes. Amazon says that if robots.txt does not mention Amzn-SearchBot but allows other search bots, it follows the rules given to those bots. This checker only reads its own group and *, so name it explicitly.
- Official docs
- developer.amazon.com
- Published IP list
- developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresses/
Block it
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Disallow: /
Allow it
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Allow: /
A named group replaces the * group for this bot, so repeat any private-path Disallow lines in it. Firewalls (Cloudflare AI Crawl Control, Vercel AI Bots ruleset) can block it even when robots.txt allows it. See fixes per stack.
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