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# Amzn-SearchBot

> Amzn-SearchBot is an AI search crawler run by Amazon. It crawls to improve search experiences in Amazon products such as Alexa. Amazon says it does not crawl content for generative AI training.

- Operator: Amazon
- Kind: AI search crawler
- robots.txt token: Amzn-SearchBot
- Follows robots.txt: yes
- Source: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/amazonbot/amazonbot.html (checked 2026-11-05)
- Page: https://invisit.dev/bots/amzn-searchbot

## What is Amzn-SearchBot?

It crawls to improve search experiences in Amazon products such as Alexa. Amazon says it does not crawl content for generative AI training.

Indexes pages so an AI search product can cite and link them in answers. Blocking it usually means you stop showing up as a source there.

If robots.txt does not mention Amzn-SearchBot but allows other search bots, Amazon says it follows the rules given to those bots.

- [Amazon’s documentation](https://developer.amazon.com/docs/amazonbot/amazonbot.html)

## Amzn-SearchBot user agent

Amazon documents this user agent for Amzn-SearchBot. Version numbers in it change over time, so match on the name, not the whole string.

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

## Should you block Amzn-SearchBot?

Usually allow it. It is how an AI search product finds pages to cite and link, so blocking it trades away being a source in those answers.

## How to block Amzn-SearchBot in robots.txt

Add a group for its token to robots.txt at the root of your site.

A bot follows only the group that names it, so it ignores your `User-agent: *` rules once it has a group of its own. Repeat any paths you also want kept from it there.

Amazon says its crawlers honor the noarchive (do not use for model training), noindex and none robots meta tags and rel=nofollow, but not Crawl-delay.

```
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /
```

- [Build a robots.txt for AI bots](https://invisit.dev/tools/robots-txt-generator)

## How to verify a request is really Amzn-SearchBot

Anyone can send any user agent, so the string alone proves nothing.

Amazon publishes the IP ranges Amzn-SearchBot crawls from. A request that claims to be Amzn-SearchBot from any other address is not Amzn-SearchBot.

- [Amzn-SearchBot IP ranges](https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresses/)

## See when Amzn-SearchBot reads your site

Bots don’t run JavaScript analytics, so a script tag never sees them. invisit records crawler reads on the server instead, through its server SDK or a Cloudflare Worker, and shows which bots read which pages, next to your visitors.

- [Track crawlers with invisit](https://invisit.dev/docs/server/sdk#crawler-reads)

## Common questions

### What is Amzn-SearchBot?

Amzn-SearchBot is an AI search crawler run by Amazon. It crawls to improve search experiences in Amazon products such as Alexa. Amazon says it does not crawl content for generative AI training.

### Is Amzn-SearchBot safe to block?

Usually allow it. It is how an AI search product finds pages to cite and link, so blocking it trades away being a source in those answers.

### How do I block Amzn-SearchBot?

Add “User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot” followed by “Disallow: /” to your robots.txt.