Amzn-SearchBot
Amazon's AI search crawler.
- Operator
- Amazon
- In the user agent
Amzn-SearchBot- robots.txt token
Amzn-SearchBot- Follows robots.txt
- says it follows robots.txt
- Official documentation
- developer.amazon.com
- Checked on
- 2026-11-11
What is Amzn-SearchBot?
Amzn-SearchBot is Amazon's AI search crawler. It builds the index an AI assistant searches when it answers. If it cannot read your pages, the assistant cannot cite or recommend them.
The operator's description: Crawls to improve Amazon search experiences such as Alexa; not used for generative AI training.
(developer.amazon.com)
How do I block or allow Amzn-SearchBot?
With robots.txt, using the token Amzn-SearchBot. Amazon says it follows robots.txt. To block the whole site:
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /To allow it, use Allow instead of Disallow. Before blocking, weigh what it brings: without it, the assistant cannot find your pages to cite or recommend them.
How do I see whether Amzn-SearchBot visits my site?
In your server or CDN access logs, look for Amzn-SearchBot in the user agent. Google Analytics does not show these visits: agents do not run its JavaScript.
Anyone can copy the name in a user agent, so counting log lines is not enough. Knocklog reads your site's traffic on any host, confirms who is who, and shows how often Amzn-SearchBot came, which pages it read and what that brought you.
How do I know it is really Amzn-SearchBot?
Amazon does not publish a way to verify Amzn-SearchBot. Any program can use that name, so Knocklog shows these visits as “unverified”, never as genuine.
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