About this bot
AmazonSellerInitiatedListing retrieves product information from URLs provided by Amazon sellers during listing creation.
The request identity is AmazonSellerInitiatedListing/1.0. This is distinct from Amazon’s general product discovery crawler.
Identification: AmazonSellerInitiatedListing.
Operator documentation: https://vendorcentral.amazon.com/support/amazonproductbot.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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AmazonSellerInitiatedListingMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 (compatible; AmazonSellerInitiatedListing/1.0; https://vendorcentral.amazon.com/support/amazonproductbot)
Details
- Kind
- User initiated fetcher
- Family
- Amazon
- Purpose
- Seller directed product retrieval
- Common Use
- fetching seller-provided product URLs for listing creation
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
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 AmazonSellerInitiatedListing; Robots.txt compliance for seller-initiated requests not stated separately in the source; leave unknown.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt compliance not established for this identity. Use access controls if necessary.