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Amzn-SearchBot

Amzn-SearchBot is an Amazon crawler used to improve search experiences in Amazon products and services, such as Alexa.

Needed to be found and cited in Alexa.

Get the robots.txt ruleAmazon documentation
Is Amzn-SearchBot allowed on your site?2 Amazon bots
  • Amzn-SearchBotSearch
    Not checked
  • Amzn-UserUser fetch
    Not checked

Reads your live robots.txt and applies the same rules these crawlers use. Nothing is stored.

robots.txt token
Amzn-SearchBot
Follows robots.txt
Yes, documented
How to verify it
Published IP ranges
Seen on
Not measured
Last checked
17 September 2026

Should you block Amzn-SearchBot?

Not if you want to be found in Alexa. Allowing it makes your content eligible to appear in Amazon search experiences such as Alexa. Amazon says it does not crawl content for generative AI model training.

What blocking each Amazon bot does
Amazon botJobIf you block it
Amzn-SearchBotThis pageSearchAllowing it makes your content eligible to appear in Amazon search experiences such as Alexa. Amazon says it does not crawl content for generative AI model training.
Amzn-UserUser fetchBlocking it can stop Amazon assistants from reading your page when a customer asks about it directly.
AmazonbotOtherBlocking it limits Amazon’s general product-improvement and potential AI training crawl path. Amazon now uses separate Amzn-SearchBot and Amzn-User agents for search and live user requests.
bedrockbotOtherA hit usually means your URL was selected for a Bedrock application data source, not a broad Amazon crawl.

From Amazon’s documentationAmazon says Amzn-SearchBot feeds search in products such as Alexa and is not used for model training.

robots.txt
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /

Asks Amzn-SearchBot not to crawl any page. Other Amazon bots are unaffected. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your site, above any wider rules.

Ignored robots.txt?

Also seen under Amazon’s name, but not in its current documentation: amazon-kendra, AmazonBuyForMe, NovaAct. Rules naming them control no documented Amazon crawler.

Spot it in your logs.

Match the name, then check where the request came from. Anyone can copy a user-agent.

User-agentsource
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36

Version numbers change. Match the highlighted name, not the whole string.

  1. 1

    Match the name

    Search your server or CDN log for Amzn-SearchBot, case-insensitive. A match is a clue, not proof.

  2. 2

    Check the published IP ranges

    Compare the request’s source with the list Amazon publishes. Anything outside it is not Amazon. developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresses/

Is this really Amzn-SearchBot?

Published addresses

Paste an address that claims to be Amzn-SearchBot. It is checked against Amazon’s published list. Nothing is stored.

Check any crawler’s address

Serve the content in HTML

The cited operator material does not verify JavaScript rendering. Serve useful HTML before client-side JavaScript where possible.

If robots.txt does not name Amzn-SearchBot but allows other search bots, Amazon says it follows the directives given to those bots. Amazon says robots.txt changes can take about 24 hours to apply and that crawl-delay is not supported.

Questions, answered.

Amzn-SearchBot is an Amazon crawler used to improve search experiences in Amazon products and services, such as Alexa.

Sources.

Officially documented. Operator facts and Trakkr’s measurements keep separate dates.

  1. [1]
    Amazon crawler documentation

    Officially documented · checked 17 September 2026

    developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot

First verified 17 September 2026. Last source check 17 September 2026.

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