About this bot
AmazonProductDiscoverybot collects public product details from retailer and brand websites for Amazon product listings.
Amazon identifies requests with AmazonProductDiscovery/1.0, documents a separate robots.txt token, and publishes a signed-request verification method.
Identification: AmazonProductDiscovery. Robots.txt token: AmazonProductDiscoverybot.
Operator documentation: https://vendorcentral.amazon.com/support/amazonproductbot.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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AmazonProductDiscoveryMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 (compatible; AmazonProductDiscovery/1.0; https://vendorcentral.amazon.com/support/amazonproductbot)AmazonProductDiscoverybot - Also known as
- AmazonProductDiscoverybot
Details
- Kind
- Product data crawler
- Family
- Amazon
- Purpose
- Product data discovery
- Common Use
- gathering publicly available product data for Amazon shopping listings
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify the documented request signature or provider IP/network where available; a matching User-Agent string alone is not proof of origin.
- Detection Notes
- Match HTTP User-Agent token AmazonProductDiscovery; HTTP identity AmazonProductDiscovery differs from robots token AmazonProductDiscoverybot. Amazon documents request signatures. Do not merge with Amazonbot or AmazonSellerInitiatedListing.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: AmazonProductDiscoverybot Disallow: /