Amazonbot/0.1
UndecidedCommunity-sourcedAmazonbot/0.1 is Amazon's web crawler designed to enhance services like Alexa by indexing web content, thereby improving the accuracy and comprehensiveness of responses to user queries. Identifying Amazonbot/0.1: The user-agent string for Amazonbot/0.1 includes "Amazonbot" along with additional agent information. An example user-agent string is: Controlling Amazonbot's Access: Amazonbot/0.1 adheres to the robots.txt protocol, allowing webmasters to manage its access to their sites. For instance, to prevent Amazonbot from crawling specific directories, you can include the following in your robots.txt file: However, Amazonbot does not support the crawl-delay directive or robots meta tags like "nofollow" and "noindex". Verifying Amazonbot's Authenticity: To confirm that a crawler accessing your server is the official Amazonbot, you can perform DNS lookups: Identify the accessing IP address from your server logs. Use the host command to perform a reverse DNS lookup on the IP address. Ensure the retrieved domain name is a subdomain of crawl.amazonbot.amazon . Perform a forward DNS lookup on the retrieved domain name. Verify that the returned IP address matches the original IP address from your server logs. For example: For more detailed information, you can visit Amazon's official page about Amazonbot.
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Requests from Amazonbot/0.1 originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
Block or allow Amazonbot/0.1
Add a Disallow rule for Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36 in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block Amazonbot/0.1 from crawling your entire site User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36 Disallow: / # Allow Amazonbot/0.1 full access User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36 Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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