Amzn-SearchBot
Amzn-SearchBot is a bot operated by Amazon that indexes pages so an AI answer engine can cite them. Amzn-SearchBot crawls pages for Amazon shopping and assistant search surfaces. Whether it honours robots.txt is undocumented, and a request claiming to be Amzn-SearchBot can be checked against a forward-confirmed reverse DNS lookup.
Amzn-SearchBot at a glance
| User agent | Amzn-SearchBotToken only. The operator has not published a full user-agent string, so match on the substring rather than an exact header. |
|---|---|
| Operator | Amazon |
| Purpose | AI search crawlers |
| Respects robots.txt | Not documented |
| Verification method | Reverse DNS, forward confirmed Part of the Amazon crawler family documented alongside Amazonbot. Verify with the same reverse-then-forward DNS check. https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot |
| Crawl pattern | Not published |
| Robots.txt tokens | Amzn-SearchBot |
| Operator documentation | None published |
Amzn-SearchBot crawls pages for Amazon shopping and assistant search surfaces. It is documented alongside Amazonbot and verified the same way.
Allow or block Amzn-SearchBot
Paste one of these into the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Rules are per token, so a block on one crawler leaves every other bot untouched.
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /Blocks every path for this crawler only.
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Allow: /Explicit allow. Useful when a wildcard rule above it would otherwise catch this crawler.
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /searchEdit the Disallow paths to match your own account, checkout and search URLs.
What blocking actually costs you
Blocking Amzn-SearchBot takes the site out of the index behind its answers, so it stops being cited there. If referral traffic from AI answers matters to you, block the training crawler instead and leave this one alone.
Block every crawler in the directory at onceIs that really Amzn-SearchBot?
A user-agent header is a string the client chooses. Scrapers copy Amzn-SearchBot precisely because site owners allow it. Part of the Amazon crawler family documented alongside Amazonbot. Verify with the same reverse-then-forward DNS check.
Paste the IP address from your access log below. You will see whether it belongs to a hosting provider, a residential proxy pool or a Tor exit, plus the ASN that announces it, which is what tells you whether the claim holds up.
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