Amzn-SearchBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTAmzn-SearchBot crawls for improving Amazon search experiences (Alexa, Rufus). Operated by Amazon.
Identification
Bot name
Amzn-SearchBot
Operator
Amazon
Category
AI Search
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
amzn-searchbot
User-agent patterns
Amzn-SearchBotUser-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36
Rated Sep 23, 2026 from public evidence
How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
Names itself honestly
Yes
Verified by Cloudflare
Yes
Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs
Not stated
Ignores site rules
Some reports found
Disguises itself or evades blocks
None found
Overloads sites
None found
How widely people complain
Several independent site owners report the same problem
Reddit discussion
Discussion is mixed, with some site owners unhappy about it
What we read
Block or allow Amzn-SearchBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for Amzn-SearchBot 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 Amzn-SearchBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Disallow: / # Allow Amzn-SearchBot full access User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows Amzn-SearchBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
Cloudflare Radar traffic
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From the community
Recent Reddit discussion mentioning this bot.
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Links & references
Data sources
This profile is compiled from the following sources.
CloudflareRadar
Last updated October 25, 2026
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