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Amazonbot

Amazon's web crawler. Amazon says it is used to improve its products and services, and it respects the Robots Exclusion Protocol.

OperatorAmazon
What it's forImproves Amazon's products and services
Renders JavaScriptNot yet observed
Verify byIP list

Who runs it

Amazon. It names itself with the token Amazonbot. Amazon runs two siblings with their own tokens, Amzn-SearchBot and Amzn-User.

User agent, as Amazon documents it
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36

What it does

Amazon says Amazonbot is used to improve its products and services. It honors nofollow links and the noarchive, noindex and none meta tags.

Renders JavaScript

Not yet observed. Amazon doesn't say whether Amazonbot runs scripts, and this site hasn't recorded a verified visit yet.

How to verify it

Match the visiting address against Amazon's published list. Amazon documents no reverse DNS check for it.

Amazon's IP list

robots.txt

Amazon says automated crawling from its listed user agents respects the Robots Exclusion Protocol, reads the file at the host level and caches it for up to 30 days. It does not support Crawl-delay. Amazon says Amzn-User may not follow all directives, because a user can initiate its actions.

Questions

Does Amazonbot support Crawl-delay?

No. Amazon says its crawlers do not support the crawl-delay directive.

Last checked against Amazon's documentation: 31 Oct 2026Verified visits recorded here: shown once the site is live