AI bots · User fetch
Amzn-User
Fetches live information on a user's behalf, for example to answer Alexa questions. Amazon says it does not crawl for training.
- Run by
- Amazon
- Type
- User fetch bot
- robots.txt token
Amzn-User- User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-User/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36- Honours robots.txt
- Not always. Amazon says it may not follow all robots.txt directives because actions can be user-initiated.
- Official docs
- developer.amazon.com
- Published IP list
- developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/live-ip-addresses/
Block it
User-agent: Amzn-User Disallow: /
Allow it
User-agent: Amzn-User 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.
Other Amazon bots
- Amazonbot (training)
- Amzn-SearchBot (search)
Other user fetch bots
- ChatGPT-User (OpenAI)
- Claude-User (Anthropic)
- Perplexity-User (Perplexity)
- Meta-ExternalFetcher (Meta)
- MistralAI-User (Mistral AI)