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Amzn-SearchBot
Crawler from Amazon
Crawls pages so they can appear in search experiences in Amazon products such as Alexa; Amazon says it does not crawl for AI training.
Amzn-SearchBot is the crawler Amazon uses to improve search experiences in its products and services. Amazon says that allowing it makes your content eligible to appear in search experiences such as Alexa.
Amazon states that Amzn-SearchBot does not crawl content for generative AI model training. It is one of three Amazon user agents, alongside Amazonbot and Amzn-User, and each one is controlled separately in robots.txt.
| Run by | Amazon |
|---|---|
| Type | Crawler |
| Purpose | Search |
| Acts for | Its operator |
| robots.txt token | Amzn-SearchBot |
| IP ranges | Published by Amazon |
| Documentation | Amazon's documentation |
Amzn-SearchBot user-agent string
Example user agent (Amazon docs) (source):
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
Match on Amzn-SearchBot; the rest of the string changes between versions.
Verifying it's really Amzn-SearchBot
Amazon publishes the IP addresses Amzn-SearchBot crawls from at developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresses/. Check that a request claiming to be Amzn-SearchBot comes from an address on that list. The list is separate from the Amazonbot and Amzn-User lists.
How Airglow identifies it
- DeclaredIt names itself in the User-Agent:
Amzn-SearchBot.
Every visit in Airglow says which of these applied, so you can decide how much to trust it.
Seeing it on your site
It reads pages without running JavaScript, so Airglow counts it through a server connection (Cloudflare). It's labeled as context, not replayed.
Allowing or blocking Amzn-SearchBot
Amzn-SearchBot reads the Amzn-SearchBot group in your robots.txt. To keep it out of the whole site:
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Disallow: /
Airglow shows, for every agent that visits, whether your robots.txt lets it in, and helps you write rules by purpose (training, search, acting for a person).
Amzn-SearchBot vs. Amazonbot vs. Amzn-User
- Amazonbot improves Amazon products and services and may be used to train Amazon AI models.
- Amzn-SearchBot improves search in Amazon products such as Alexa. Amazon says it does not crawl for generative AI training.
- Amzn-User fetches live pages when a person asks something, such as an Alexa question that needs current information. Because a user starts it, Amazon says it may not follow all robots.txt directives.
Each agent has its own robots.txt token and its own IP list. Amazon says a change to one setting does not affect the others and can take about 24 hours to take effect.
How it reads robots.txt
If your robots.txt does not mention Amzn-SearchBot but allows other search bots, Amazon says Amzn-SearchBot follows the rules you give those other search bots. Name it directly if you want different rules for it.
- It fetches robots.txt per host, so
site.example.comneeds its own file. - It may use a cached copy up to 30 days old. If the file can't be fetched, it acts as if there is none.
- It honors
rel=nofollowlinks and thenoindex,noneandnoarchiverobots meta tags. - It does not support
crawl-delay.
Questions
Is Amzn-SearchBot used to train AI models?
No, according to Amazon. Its documentation says Amzn-SearchBot does not crawl content for generative AI model training. Amazonbot is the Amazon crawler that may be used for training.
Does blocking Amazonbot also block Amzn-SearchBot?
No. Amazon treats each user agent setting independently. To block Amzn-SearchBot, add a rule for the Amzn-SearchBot token.
What happens if my robots.txt doesn't mention Amzn-SearchBot?
Amazon says it follows the directives you give other search bots. If those bots are allowed, Amzn-SearchBot will crawl too.
Does Amzn-SearchBot respect crawl-delay?
No. Amazon's documentation says its crawlers do not support the crawl-delay directive.
Who do I contact about Amzn-SearchBot?
Amazon lists amazonbot@amazon.com for content owners and publishers. It asks you to include the relevant domain names in your message.
Other agents from Amazon
Sources
Last reviewed November 10, 2026.
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