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Amazon Contxbot

Name: Amazon Contxbot
Author: Amazon

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Amazon uses a crawler, also known as a spider or a bot to process and index the content of webpages. The Amazon crawler visits your site to determine its content in order to provide relevant ads. Operated by Amazon.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Advertising & Marketing

What is Amazon Contxbot?

Amazon Contxbot is a web crawler operated by Amazon. Amazon uses a crawler, also known as a spider or a bot to process and index the content of webpages. The Amazon crawler visits your site to determine its content in order to provide relevant ads.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Amazon Contxbot

Operator

Amazon

Why it crawls your site

Amazon Contxbot crawls websites to collect data for advertising and marketing purposes. It is operated by Amazon as part of their advertising infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Amazon Contxbot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for contxbot 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 Amazon Contxbot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: contxbot
Disallow: /

# Allow Amazon Contxbot full access
User-agent: contxbot
Allow: /