Amazon · Training crawlers
Amazonbot
Amazon’s broad crawler for improving Amazon products and services, including search and AI. Blocking it is a product-opt-out, not a Google ranking move.
- Operator
- Amazon
- Traffic type
- Training crawlers
- Verification
- Not independently verifiable
- robots.txt
- Honors robots.txt
Usually means: Bots that collect public pages for future models. Blocking them opts you out of training. It does not, by itself, remove you from live AI search citations.
User-agent
robots.txt and most WAF rules match the token, not the full Mozilla string. Operators often wrap Amazonbot in extra product or version text.
Amazonbot
What Amazonbot does
Amazonbot crawls public pages to improve Amazon products. Amzn-SearchBot and Amzn-User are the more specific search/answer tokens.
How to get discovered
If Amazon search/assistant visibility matters, prefer allowing Amzn-SearchBot and Amzn-User even when you Disallow Amazonbot for training-style collection.
Why Amazonbot might skip you
Intentional Disallow, bot fights, or robots templates that Disallow Amazonbot and forget the search-specific tokens.
robots.txt rule
This snippet opts out of training-style collection. Keep the search and user-fetch tokens from the same operator allowed if you still want citations.
# Optional training opt-out — does not remove you from AI search by itself
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /Amazon has not published a machine-readable range file for this token. Do not treat the user-agent alone as proof of identity.
Sources
JavaScript: render behavior is not documented.
Other Amazon bots
Training, search, and user-fetch tokens from the same operator are not interchangeable. Allow the discovery path even when you opt out of training.
Amazonbot FAQ
What is Amazonbot?
Amazonbot crawls public pages to improve Amazon products. Amzn-SearchBot and Amzn-User are the more specific search/answer tokens.
Should I allow Amazonbot in robots.txt?
Only if you want to opt out of training-style collection. Blocking Amazonbot does not, by itself, remove you from live AI search citations — those use the search and user-fetch tokens from Amazon.
How do I know a request is really Amazonbot?
Amazon has not published a range file for this token. Treat the user-agent as a claimed identity, and do not build a hard IP allowlist from blog posts or screenshots.
Letting Amazonbot in is the start. Getting cited is the job.
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