Amzn-SearchBot: Amazon's AI search crawler
Amazon's crawler for search experiences in its products and services, such as Alexa.
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- A few seconds.
- Nothing is stored.
Amzn-SearchBot at a glance
Everything Amazon documents about it, with links to the source.
- Operator
- Amazon
- Type
- AI search and answers
- Used for
- Search experiences in Amazon products, such as Alexa
- Obeys robots.txt
- Yes. Amazon documents that Amzn-SearchBot follows robots.txt, so a rule for its token is honoured.
- 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
- IP addresses
- Not published.
- Documentation
- developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
How to block Amzn-SearchBot
Fetches the pages AI answers cite and link to. Blocking it keeps your pages out of those answers: no citation, no link.
Block the whole site
Add this group to robots.txt at the root of your site.
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Disallow: /
Block only some paths
List the paths; everything else stays open to Amzn-SearchBot.
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /drafts/
How to verify Amzn-SearchBot
Anyone can send a crawler's user-agent string. Where the request comes from is what proves it.
- 1
Find requests whose user agent contains "Amzn-SearchBot" in your server or CDN logs.
- 2
Amazon publishes no IP list for Amzn-SearchBot, so it cannot be verified from the request alone. Treat unusual volume as a scraper using its name, and rate-limit or block it at the firewall.
- 3
Block what fails the check at the firewall. A robots.txt rule only reaches crawlers that choose to read it.
Other crawlers from Amazon
Each has its own token, and blocking one leaves the others untouched.
Frequently asked questions
Amazon's crawler for search experiences in its products and services, such as Alexa. Amazon says that if robots.txt does not mention Amzn-SearchBot but allows other search bots, it follows the rules given to them.
Yes. Amazon documents that Amzn-SearchBot follows robots.txt, so a rule for its token is honoured.
Add a group for its token to robots.txt at the root of your site: "User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot" followed by "Disallow: /". To close only part of the site, list those paths instead of "/".
Amazon's AI answers stop finding your pages through it, so they cannot cite or link to you. If you want to keep your content out of training but stay in answers, block Amazon's training token instead and leave Amzn-SearchBot allowed.
Checked against Amazon's documentation on 29 September 2026.
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