Amzn-SearchBot: Amazon's search crawler
Amzn-SearchBot is the crawler Amazon uses for search in its products, such as Alexa. Amazon says it doesn't crawl for AI training.
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At a glance
Amzn-SearchBot in one table
- Company
- Amazon
- What it's for
- Search index: read into the index an ai assistant searches.
- robots.txt token
Amzn-SearchBot- Full user agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36- Follows robots.txt
- Follows it. Amazon says it follows the robots.txt rules a site gives other search bots.
- How to verify
- Check the visitor's IP against the list Amazon publishes. A request outside it isn't Amzn-SearchBot, whatever its user agent says. The IP list
- Source
- Amazon's documentation, read on October 12, 2026.
robots.txt
Allow Amzn-SearchBot
Allow it. It builds the index Amazon's answers are drawn from, so blocking it means those answers can't cite your pages.
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBotAllow: /Needed only if a wider rule blocks it: robots.txt lets every bot in by default. A bot named in its own group ignores the User-agent: * group, so repeat your private paths there as Disallow lines. A block in your CDN or firewall has to be lifted there.
A rule only changes what the bot reads next. To see whether Amzn-SearchBot reads your pages now, and which ones, track AI crawlers on your server or see the full AI crawler list.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
From Amazon's documentation, read on October 12, 2026.
Amzn-SearchBot is the crawler Amazon uses for search in its products, such as Alexa. Amazon says it doesn't crawl for AI training.
Amazon says it follows the robots.txt rules a site gives other search bots.
Check the visitor's IP against the list Amazon publishes. A request outside it isn't Amzn-SearchBot, whatever its user agent says.
Allow it. It builds the index Amazon's answers are drawn from, so blocking it means those answers can't cite your pages.
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