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Amazonbot: what it is, its user agent, and how to block it
Amazonbot is Amazon's search and training crawler. Improves Amazon products and services, and may be used to train Amazon's AI models. In our 13 October 2026 study, 228 of 2,332 live top sites with readable robots.txt rules (9.8%) disallow Amazonbot. Part of the AI crawler list.
What Amazonbot does
Operator: Amazon. Job: Search and training under one name. Obeys robots.txt.
“Automated crawling from these listed user agents respects the Robots Exclusion Protocol, honoring the user-agent and the allow/disallow directives. They will fetch host-level robots.txt files or use a cached copy from the last 30 days.”
Amazonbot user agent
robots.txt token: Amazonbot (matched case-insensitively).
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36Amazon gives this as an example.
robots.txt: allow or block Amazonbot
Allow
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /Block
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /Affects AI answers and citations. One name covers both search and model training, so a Disallow removes you from Amazon's search features as well as its training data.
Once a group names Amazonbot, it ignores your User-agent: * rules, so copy any paths you still want blocked into it.
How many top sites block Amazonbot
Disallow Amazonbot in robots.txt
9.8%
228 of 2,332 sites
In our 13 October 2026 study, 228 of 2,332 live top sites with readable robots.txt rules (9.8%) disallow Amazonbot.
Sample: Tranco top 5,000, tested once on 13 October 2026 from one Indian fixed-line connection. The robots.txt share counts live sites (home page 2xx) whose rules we could read, as on the AI visibility hub. Method and CSV in the study.
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The AI crawler checker reads your robots.txt the way Amazonbot does and tests what your firewall returns. To write the rules, use the AI robots.txt generator.
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What it checks
- robots.txt for Amazonbot
- Finds the group Amazonbot obeys under RFC 9309 and the rule that decides your page.
- What your CDN lets through
- Requests the page as OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Claude-SearchBot and compares the answers with a browser request.
- Content without JavaScript
- AI crawlers don't run JavaScript. The audit checks how much of the page is in the raw HTML.
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Questions
What is Amazonbot?+
Amazonbot is Amazon's search and training crawler. Improves Amazon products and services, and may be used to train Amazon's AI models.
What is Amazonbot's user agent?+
Amazon documents it as: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36. Match on the token Amazonbot, since version numbers change.
How do I block Amazonbot?+
Add "User-agent: Amazonbot" followed by "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt. Obeys robots.txt, per Amazon.
Does blocking Amazonbot affect AI search citations?+
One name covers both search and model training, so a Disallow removes you from Amazon's search features as well as its training data.
How many websites block Amazonbot?+
In our 13 October 2026 study, 228 of 2,332 live top sites with readable robots.txt rules (9.8%) disallow Amazonbot.