What is Amazonbot? AI crawler guide
Amazonbot is a crawler or fetcher associated with Amazon. See source-graded user-agent, robots.txt, verification, and observation guidance.
What is Amazonbot?
Amazonbot is a documented Amazon crawler or fetcher. Amazon crawler used to improve its products and services and potentially train Amazon AI models.
Evidence status
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Evidence | Officially documented |
| Lifecycle | Active |
| Purpose | other |
| robots.txt posture | honors |
| Source checked | 2026-07-21 |
Documented user-agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
Allowing Amazonbot only creates the possibility of retrieval. To find out whether your pages are selected, measure which answer engines actually cite your pages using a stable query set.
robots.txt allow example
User-agent: Amazonbot Allow: /
robots.txt block example
User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /
What the rule can and cannot do
Robots.txt expresses an access policy to compliant automated crawlers. It does not authenticate the sender, remove content already collected, or guarantee that a model will use or not use content.
How to verify a request
- Match the complete documented user-agent where one exists. A match is only a clue.
- Use the operator-published check: Published IP ranges.
- Keep the observed request, operator documentation, and any inference as separate fields.
Observed in Trakkr connected-site data
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Matching signature | Amazonbot |
| Classified requests | 2407068 |
| Sites in sample | 85 |
| Window | 2026-07-18 through 2026-08-17 |
| Method | Finalized daily crawler summaries from connected Trakkr sites, grouped by the crawler signature detected in each request. |
| Limits | This is a connected-site sample, not a representative sample of the web. A matching user-agent or signature does not prove that the named operator sent the request. Counts describe classified request signatures, not market share or unique pages crawled. |
JavaScript behavior
The cited operator material does not verify JavaScript rendering. Serve useful HTML before client-side JavaScript where possible.
Related bots
- OAI-AdsBot: Also tracked as a general crawler.
- GoogleOther: Also tracked as a general crawler.
- GoogleOther-Image: Also tracked as a general crawler.
- GoogleOther-Video: Also tracked as a general crawler.
- ImagesiftBot: Also tracked as a general crawler.
- Diffbot: Also tracked as a general crawler.
- Google-CloudVertexBot: Also tracked as a general crawler.
- meta-externalads: Also tracked as a general crawler.
- omgili: Also tracked as a general crawler.
- Robots.txt: Robots.txt is the control file used to allow or block Amazonbot.
- AI Crawlers: Amazonbot is a concrete crawler example for this concept.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Amazonbot?
Amazonbot is a officially documented crawler or fetcher record associated with Amazon.
What user-agent does Amazonbot use?
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36. Check the evidence status before attributing a matching request.
Can Amazonbot be blocked in robots.txt?
The record identifies Amazonbot as the token to review. Robots.txt is a request policy, not proof of model use or non-use.
How can I verify a Amazonbot request?
Start with the full user-agent, then use published ip ranges from the operator. A user-agent match alone is not proof.
Data & Sources
- Amazon documentation - Primary source for Amazonbot crawler details.
- Amazonbot verification: Published IP ranges - Verification information published for Amazonbot.