AI crawlers·Amazon
Amzn-User
Fetches live web pages for a person, for example when someone asks Alexa a question that needs up-to-date information. Amazon says it does not collect content for AI model training.
- Operator
- Amazon
- robots.txt token
Amzn-User- Follows robots.txt
- Not always
- IP ranges
- Published
- In Spreelytics
- AI answers tab
- Source
- Amazon’s documentation
What user agent does Amzn-User use?
Amazon publishes this user agent string for Amzn-User.
Amazon writes W.X.Y.Z where the Chrome version goes, because it changes.
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-User/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36How do I block Amzn-User?
Amazon says that because a person can start its fetches, Amzn-User may not follow every robots.txt rule.
This is the robots.txt rule that names it:
User-agent: Amzn-User
Disallow: /How do I check that a Amzn-User visit is real?
Anyone can put a crawler’s name in a user agent, so the name alone proves nothing.
Amazon publishes a separate list of IP addresses for each of its bots, this one for Amzn-User.
How do I see Amzn-User visits on my site?
Your server’s access logs record the user agent of each request, so you can search them for “Amzn-User”.
Or add the Spreelytics server middleware, @spreelytics/ai-crawl. It recognises Amzn-User by its user agent and counts each visit on the Bots page under AI answers, as Amazon, apart from your visitor numbers.
Sources: developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
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