Bot intelligence record

Amzn-SearchBot

Usually allow

Use the Amzn-SearchBot identifier to separate Amazon search indexing or content discovery traffic from normal visitor requests in server logs.

Search Indexing Official Documented Confidence: High Verified: Yes robots.txt: Yes
Operator
Amazon
Family
Amazon
Type
Search
Source type
Official
Last checked
2026-05-20

User-Agent Pattern

Amazon
Amzn-SearchBot
Verification note

User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.

Robots.txt Snippet

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Handling Guidance

Depends

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.

Search indexing, content discovery, rendering, or search-result freshness checks.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
Amazon
Family
Amazon
Type
Search
Purpose
Indexing
Identity type
Official Documented
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-04-01
Last checked
2026-05-20
Source type
Official
Verification
Verify the user-agent together with Amazon's published IP ranges for Amzn-SearchBot.
IP ranges
https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/
Spoofing risk
User-agent strings for Amzn-SearchBot can be spoofed. Treat user-agent detection as a classification signal, then verify with published IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, operator documentation, or published operator documentation, IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, or other verified identity signals before allow-listing.

Notes

Amzn-SearchBot is listed in the Botcrawl directory as a search crawler from Amazon. The primary identifier for log review is Amzn-SearchBot.

Identification

  • User-agent pattern: Amzn-SearchBot
  • Family: Amazon
  • Type: Search
  • Kind: Crawler

Common use

Search indexing, content discovery, rendering, or search-result freshness checks.

Verification and handling

Verify the user-agent together with Amazon's published IP ranges for Amzn-SearchBot.

Directory guidance marks the risk level as Safe and the blocking decision as Depends. Do not rely on the user-agent string alone because user-agent strings can be copied or spoofed.

Robots.txt handling: Yes.

Evidence and Source

  • Verify the user-agent together with Amazon's published IP ranges for Amzn-SearchBot.
  • Match `Amzn-SearchBot` as a case-insensitive substring in HTTP user-agent logs. Review bot_aliases for alternate names or product labels. Use bot_http_agent for full user-agent examples when the client sends a longer browser-like string. Do not treat a user-agent match alone as proof of identity for allow-listing.
  • Search indexing, content discovery, rendering, or search-result freshness checks.
  • User-agent strings for Amzn-SearchBot can be spoofed. Treat user-agent detection as a classification signal, then verify with published IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, operator documentation, or published operator documentation, IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, or other verified identity signals before allow-listing.

https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot

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