About this bot
Amzn-SearchBot is a crawler associated with Amazon and used for search-indexing.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is Amzn-SearchBot. Representative HTTP request identity: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under Amzn-SearchBot. Site-specific access policy should still be evaluated before enforcement.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling is to evaluate the request context before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Amzn-SearchBotMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 - Also known as
- Amazon search bot
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Amazon
- Purpose
- Search indexing
- Common Use
- Improving search experiences in Amazon products and services, including surfaces such as Alexa; not used for generative AI model training.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the `Amzn-SearchBot` User-Agent token and corroborate source IPs against Amazon's published search-bot address ranges when stronger verification is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match `Amzn-SearchBot`; combine the User-Agent claim with Amazon's published search-bot IP ranges for higher-confidence verification.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Disallow: /