About this bot
Amzn-User is a fetcher associated with Amazon and used for user-requested-fetching.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is Amzn-User. Representative HTTP request identity: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-User/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
robots.txt handling depends on the service or request context. Use deterministic server-side controls when needed.
Risk classification: Neutral. 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-UserMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-User/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 - Also known as
- Amazon user fetcher
Details
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- Amazon
- Purpose
- User requested fetching
- Common Use
- Fetching current web information on behalf of Amazon users, such as for Alexa queries; not used for generative AI model training.
- Respects robots.txt
- Depends
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the `Amzn-User` User-Agent token and corroborate source IPs against Amazon's published live-fetch address ranges when stronger verification is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match `Amzn-User`; combine the User-Agent claim with Amazon's published live-fetch IP ranges for higher-confidence verification.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt handling depends on the request context or service mode. Use server-side controls when deterministic restriction is required.