Amazonbot: user agent, purpose, and whether to allow it
Amazonbot crawls content to improve Amazon products and services. Amazon states the data may be used to train Amazon AI models, which is why it is classified as a training crawler rather than a live answer fetcher.
Specification
| Operator | Amazon |
|---|---|
| Purpose | TrainingCollects content that may be used to train future models. Blocking it removes your content from future training runs. It does not affect whether a model can find and cite you today. |
| Agent kind | CrawlerAutonomous crawler. Appears in your logs under its own user-agent. |
| User agent | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 |
| robots.txt token | Amazonbot |
| robots.txt compliance | Documented: respects robots.txt |
| Verification | Published IP range filehttps://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/ |
| Sends referral traffic | No |
| Attaches a citation | No |
| Status | Active |
| Legacy Kymo category | training |
| Source | Operator documentationhttps://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot |
| Verified on |
What blocking it costs you
Blocking Amazonbot removes your content from Amazon AI model training and from the data behind Amazon product answers. Amazon documents that it honours the Robots Exclusion Protocol and that a robots.txt change takes roughly 24 hours to take effect. Kymo previously classified this agent as a live answer fetch, which was wrong; stored rows were corrected in migration23.
robots.txt directives
Both blocks below address Amazonbot only. Rules for one token never apply to another, even from the same operator.
Allow Amazonbot
User-agent: Amazonbot Allow: /
Block Amazonbot
User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /
Questions
What is the Amazonbot user agent?
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
Does Amazonbot respect robots.txt?
Documented: respects robots.txt
What does blocking Amazonbot cost me?
Blocking Amazonbot removes your content from Amazon AI model training and from the data behind Amazon product answers. Amazon documents that it honours the Robots Exclusion Protocol and that a robots.txt change takes roughly 24 hours to take effect. Kymo previously classified this agent as a live answer fetch, which was wrong; stored rows were corrected in migration23.
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See this bot in your own logs
Kymo classifies every crawler hit server-side using this registry, so Amazonbot shows up under Amazon with its purpose attached. Read how crawler detection works, or run a free free AI visibility check to see what each crawler currently gets back from your server. No account needed for the check.