Amazon · Search crawler guide
Amzn-SearchBot: who runs it and how to allow or block it
Amzn-SearchBot improves search experiences in Amazon products and services. Amazon states it does not crawl content for generative AI model training.
Amzn-SearchBot at a glance
- Operator
- Amazon
- Purpose
- Search It builds the search index behind AI answers.
- Kind
- Crawler. Visits your pages under its own user agent and reads the robots.txt group that names Amzn-SearchBot.
- What it feeds
- search in Amazon products and services
- What Amazon says about robots.txt
- Amazon states that when robots.txt does not mention Amzn-SearchBot but allows other search bots, Amzn-SearchBot follows the rules given to those bots.
- User agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36- Verified
- against Amazon's official docs (opens in a new tab).
robots.txt lines
Allow or block Amzn-SearchBot.
Paste one group into the robots.txt at the root of your domain. A group that names Amzn-SearchBot replaces your * group for Amzn-SearchBot, so copy any * Disallow lines you still want applied into it.
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /
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User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
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User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Amzn-User
Allow: /
Opens Amzn-SearchBot together with the other search and assistant crawlers in one paste.
Precedence
How Amzn-SearchBot reads your robots.txt
Major crawlers apply the robots.txt standard (RFC 9309) the same way. Three rules decide every path.
- A named group beats *. When a group says
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot, Amzn-SearchBot follows that group and ignores the * group entirely. With no named group, the * group applies; with neither, every path is allowed. - The longest matching rule wins. Inside the group, the Allow or Disallow line with the longest matching path decides, so
Allow: /checkout/helpoverridesDisallow: /checkoutfor the help pages.*matches any run of characters and$marks the end of the path. - Allow wins a tie. When an Allow and a Disallow match with the same length, the path is allowed.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /checkout
Allow: /checkout/help
Disallow: /*.pdf$
| Path | Result | Deciding rule |
|---|---|---|
/ | Allowed | No rule in the Amzn-SearchBot group matches, so it is allowed |
/checkout/cart | Blocked | line 5: Disallow: /checkout |
/checkout/help | Allowed | line 6: Allow: /checkout/help |
/menu.pdf | Blocked | line 7: Disallow: /*.pdf$ |
Line 2 still blocks every crawler without a group of its own. Amzn-SearchBot reads only lines 4 to 7, which is why the homepage stays open to it.
Your site
See which line decides Amzn-SearchBot on your site.
FAQ
Amzn-SearchBot, answered.
What is Amzn-SearchBot?
Amzn-SearchBot improves search experiences in Amazon products and services. Amazon states it does not crawl content for generative AI model training. Amzn-SearchBot is run by Amazon and builds the search index behind AI answers.
How do I allow Amzn-SearchBot in robots.txt?
Add a group that names it: a line reading "User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot" followed by "Allow: /". A group that names Amzn-SearchBot replaces your * group for Amzn-SearchBot, so repeat any Disallow lines from your * group that should still apply to it. To block it instead, use "Disallow: /" in that group.
Does blocking Amzn-SearchBot remove me from search in Amazon products and services?
It can. Amzn-SearchBot builds the index behind search in Amazon products and services, so blocking it keeps your pages out of that index and out of the answers drawn from it. Amazon states that when robots.txt does not mention Amzn-SearchBot but allows other search bots, Amzn-SearchBot follows the rules given to those bots.
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