Trakkr Data

Amazonbot

Otherby Amazon

Amazon’s web crawler. Indexes pages to improve Alexa, search and Amazon’s AI services.

Share of AI crawl visits
6.7%
Rank #5 of 12 crawlers
Visits observed
38K
identified requests
Sites reached
-
Pages per visit
-
Crawl velocity
-
peak pages per minute

What Amazonbot is for

General-purpose or knowledge-graph crawling with a broader purpose.

General-purpose crawling for Amazon products. Honours a robots.txt directive on the Amazonbot user-agent.

Crawler guide

Evergreen identity, source, and robots.txt handling guidance.

Read the full bot guide

Allow or block Amazonbot

Honours robots.txt. Add one of these to your robots.txt.

Block it
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
Allow it explicitly
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
User-agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
Amazon's official bot docs

Other AI crawlers

Every bot Trakkr tracks is a doorway.

Common questions

What is Amazonbot?

Amazonbot is an AI web crawler operated by Amazon. Amazon’s web crawler. Indexes pages to improve Alexa, search and Amazon’s AI services.

How do I block Amazonbot?

Add a directive to your robots.txt: "User-agent: Amazonbot" followed by "Disallow: /". Honours robots.txt.

Does blocking Amazonbot hide me from AI?

General-purpose crawling for Amazon products. Honours a robots.txt directive on the Amazonbot user-agent.

Methodology

Identity and robots.txt facts come from Amazon's published bot documentation. Behaviour is measured from identified Amazonbot requests in the server logs of the brands Trakkr tracks - 576K crawler visits across 84 sites, recounted as new data arrives.

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Telemetry updated Feb 1, 2026.