Amzn-SearchBot

Questions about Amzn-SearchBot

What is Amzn-SearchBot?

Amzn-SearchBot is Amazon's search crawler. Allowing it makes your content eligible for search experiences in Amazon products such as Alexa. Amazon says it does not crawl content for generative AI model training.

Do I need a robots.txt group for Amzn-SearchBot?

Not necessarily. Amazon says that if robots.txt does not name Amzn-SearchBot but allows other search bots, it follows the rules given to those bots. Add a dedicated group only if you want to treat it differently.

Does blocking Amazonbot also block Amzn-SearchBot?

No. Amazon documents each user agent's robots.txt settings as independent of the others.

Amzn-SearchBot crawls web content to improve search experiences across Amazon products and services, including making content eligible to appear in search-style experiences such as Alexa. Amazon’s own documentation is explicit that this crawler is not used to train generative AI models — that use is associated with the separate Amazonbot token.

A robots.txt behaviour worth knowing

Amazon’s documentation states that Amzn-SearchBot follows the robots.txt directives given to other search bots if it is not specifically mentioned by name. A site that has a general rule for search crawlers (or a wildcard User-agent: * group) but no Amzn-SearchBot-specific group is still covering it — an explicit Amzn-SearchBot group is only needed to give this crawler different treatment from your site’s other search-bot rules.

Site-owner controls

Disallowing Amzn-SearchBot removes this content’s eligibility to appear in Amazon’s search-style experiences, including Alexa-eligible content. It does not affect Amazonbot (Amazon’s mixed-use crawler, which may include AI training) or Amzn-User (user-triggered fetches) — both documented separately, and evaluated independently by CrawlPact. See /limitations for what a robots.txt rule can and cannot guarantee.

Related crawlers

Amazon documents Amzn-SearchBot alongside two other tokens on the same page: Amazonbot (mixed use, including possible AI training) and Amzn-User (user-triggered fetches on behalf of Amazon apps and devices, which does not reliably honour robots.txt at all — see that page). See Amazonbot vs. Amzn-SearchBot vs. Amzn-User for a side-by-side comparison.

How to verify Amzn-SearchBot requests

Amazon documents this user agent:

                  Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
                

Amazon publishes Amzn-SearchBot's IP addresses at https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresses/. Operator documentation.

A user-agent string alone can be copied by anyone; confirming a request really came from Amazon needs your server or CDN logs. CrawlPact audits declared policy and does not see your traffic.

Example robots.txt configuration

To disallow Amzn-SearchBot specifically, without affecting any other crawler:

User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /

If no dedicated User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot group exists in a domain'srobots.txt, this crawler falls back to whatever the wildcard User-agent: * group says (RFC 9309) — see robots.txt syntax basics for how group selection works. A robots.txt rule is a published instruction; it does not technically prevent access.

Official source

https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot

Verified against the source above as of 8 September 2026 — see how CrawlPact verifies crawler information.