Overview
Amzn-SearchBot is a search crawler from Amazon used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Amzn-SearchBot; related patterns include Amazon search bot; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36.
Amzn-SearchBot is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
Amzn-SearchBot is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
Amzn-SearchBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Amzn-SearchBot - Aliases
- Amazon search bot
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 - Robots Token
- Amzn-SearchBot
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify Amzn-SearchBot by matching `Amzn-SearchBot` to Amazon evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Amazon
- Purpose
- Search indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Improving search experiences in Amazon products and services, including surfaces such as Alexa; not used for generative AI model training.
- Detection Notes
- Amzn-SearchBot traffic is primarily detected by the `Amzn-SearchBot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Amazon search bot`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Amazon infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- Amzn-SearchBot has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- Amazon Checked 2026-08-07
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.