What is Amazonbot?
Amazonbot is Amazon's crawler used for AI training and other purposes. Training crawlers collect pages that may be used to train or improve AI models. From the operator's wording: improve Amazon products and services; may train Amazon AI models.
| Operator | Amazon |
|---|---|
| Purpose (operator wording) | training / other (improve Amazon products and services; may train Amazon AI models) |
| robots.txt token | Amazonbot |
| User agent string | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes |
| IP ranges | https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/ |
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What else should I know about Amazonbot?
What is the Amazonbot user agent string?
This is the user agent string Amazon documents for Amazonbot, as of October 29, 2026. Version numbers and details can change, so match on the token in robots.txt, not on the whole string.
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36How do I block Amazonbot in robots.txt?
Add this group to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. It asks Amazonbot to stay out of every page.
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /To allow it explicitly, for example while a broader rule blocks other bots:
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /How do I opt out of Amazon training but stay in its search?
Each Amazon user agent has its own token, so you can set them one by one. This file blocks Amazonbot and allows Amzn-SearchBot, Amzn-User. Every line comes from the rows in this dataset. Whether allowing a bot keeps you in a product is Amazon's call, so check each crawler's page. Amazon says Amzn-User may not follow robots.txt.
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Amzn-User
Allow: /Does blocking Amazonbot affect AI answers?
Amazon does not say what blocking Amazonbot changes. That is not stated.
Each other Amazon user agent has its own robots.txt token, so a rule for Amazonbot does not cover them. See the related crawlers below.
Does Amazonbot follow robots.txt?
Yes. Amazon: its user agents follow the Robots Exclusion Protocol, honoring user-agent and allow/disallow directives. Crawl-delay not supported.
Robots.txt is a request, not a lock (RFC 9309).
What IP addresses does Amazonbot use?
Amazon publishes a list at https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/. We did not download or parse it. A request that claims to be Amazonbot but comes from outside that list is not Amazonbot.
Which other Amazon crawlers are there?
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