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Amazonbot user agent

Operated by Amazon · Live answers · Answering you

robots.txt token
Amazonbot
Full User-Agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)

Amazonbot identifies itself with the token Amazonbot. That is the case-insensitive substring to grep for in access logs, and the exact name to put after User-agent: in robots.txt. It fetches a page live, at the moment a user asks something.

Allow or block Amazonbot in robots.txt

Robots.txt applies the most specific matching group, so a group naming Amazonbot overrides your User-agent: * rules for this bot alone.

Allow
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Block
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

What blocking costs you: Alexa Answers and Amazon search products can't surface your content.

To see which AI crawlers your robots.txt allows right now, run your domain through the AI crawler access checker. To check whether AI answers actually cite you, use the AI citation checker.

Amazon's own documentation: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot

FAQ

What is the Amazonbot user agent?
Amazonbot announces itself with the User-Agent token "Amazonbot". That token is the case-insensitive substring to match in server logs and the exact name to put after "User-agent:" in robots.txt. The full line Amazon publishes is: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
Who operates Amazonbot and what does it collect?
Amazonbot is run by Amazon and fetches a page live, at the moment a user asks something. In the AI picture that puts it under "Answering you": A live user prompt made an AI fetch your page to answer.
How do I block Amazonbot?
Add a robots.txt group naming the token exactly: User-agent: Amazonbot followed by Disallow: /. Robots.txt matches the most specific group, so a Amazonbot group overrides whatever your User-agent: * group says. Alexa Answers and Amazon search products can't surface your content.
Should I block Amazonbot?
That depends on what you lose. Alexa Answers and Amazon search products can't surface your content. Sites chasing AI citations usually keep the live-answer and AI-search bots open and make a separate decision about the training crawlers. Run your domain through the AI crawler access checker to see which ones your robots.txt lets in today.
Can Amazonbot be spoofed?
Yes. A User-Agent header is self-reported, so any scraper can claim to be Amazonbot. The token is fine for reporting and for robots.txt, but if you are rate-limiting or firewalling on it, verify the request IP against Amazon's published ranges before you trust the name.

Paste a full User-Agent line and identify any crawler with the AI bot user agent list and lookup, or see every token side by side.