# Amzn-SearchBot

> Improves search in Amazon products such as Alexa; allowing it makes your content eligible to appear there. Amazon says it does not crawl for generative AI training.

Canonical page: https://getrankroot.com/ai-bots/amzn-searchbot · Facts checked against Amazon docs on 2026-10-20

| Operator | Used for | Type | Obeys robots.txt |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amazon | Alexa and Amazon search | AI search index | Yes |

## Should you allow it?

Allow it.

**If you block it:** Your content is no longer eligible to appear in Amazon search experiences such as Alexa.

If robots.txt does not name it but allows other search bots, it follows the rules given to those bots.

## robots.txt rules

Allow Amzn-SearchBot:

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

Block Amzn-SearchBot:

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

Disallow Amzn-SearchBot from one folder only:

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

A bot follows the most specific User-agent group that names it and ignores the generic `User-agent: *` group, so repeat any shared Disallow lines inside it.

## Same company, different bots: Amazon

| Bot | Type | Purpose | Obeys robots.txt | If you block it |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Amazonbot](https://getrankroot.com/ai-bots/amazonbot.md) | AI training crawler | Amazon products and AI | Yes | Stops the Amazon crawler whose data may be used to train Amazon AI models. Alexa search uses Amzn-SearchBot instead. |
| [Amzn-SearchBot](https://getrankroot.com/ai-bots/amzn-searchbot.md) | AI search index | Alexa and Amazon search | Yes | Your content is no longer eligible to appear in Amazon search experiences such as Alexa. |
| [Amzn-User](https://getrankroot.com/ai-bots/amzn-user.md) | User-triggered fetcher | Alexa (user requests) | Not reliably | A robots.txt rule may not fully apply; Amazon says it may not follow all directives. |

## User agent string

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

## How to verify it's really Amzn-SearchBot

Find its requests in your server logs:

```
grep -i "Amzn-SearchBot" access.log
```

Amazon publishes a separate IP address list for each of its crawlers.

Published IP list: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresses/

## Common mistakes

- Writing a User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot group and expecting your User-agent: * rules to still apply. A crawler follows only the most specific group that matches it and ignores the others, so repeat any shared Disallow lines inside the Amzn-SearchBot group.
- Leaving a CDN or host "block AI bots" setting on and only checking robots.txt. Those settings block requests at the network edge. Cloudflare, for example, changed its defaults on September 15, 2026 for customers who did not opt out: bots it classifies as Training or Agent are blocked on pages that display ads, and multi-purpose crawlers that combine Search and Training are affected by the Training block.
- Trusting the user agent header alone. Anyone can send "Amzn-SearchBot" in a request; verify the source IP as shown above before allowlisting or blocking.

## FAQ

### What is Amzn-SearchBot?

Improves search in Amazon products such as Alexa; allowing it makes your content eligible to appear there. Amazon says it does not crawl for generative AI training.

### Does Amzn-SearchBot respect robots.txt?

Yes, according to Amazon.

### What happens if I block Amzn-SearchBot?

Your content is no longer eligible to appear in Amazon search experiences such as Alexa.

### Should I block Amzn-SearchBot?

Allow it.

## Sources

- [Official documentation from Amazon](https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot)
- [Published IP addresses for Amzn-SearchBot](https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresses/)

Check whether Amzn-SearchBot can reach a site: https://getrankroot.com/tools/ai-crawler-checker or `GET https://getrankroot.com/api/bots?url=example.com`. Full list: https://getrankroot.com/ai-bots.md