curl -s https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/amazonbot.json   # this page, as JSON

Amazonbot

Amazon · AI search crawlers · json

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

What it is

Amazon's crawler, feeding Alexa's ability to answer questions from the web and Amazon's own search and assistant products.

What blocking it costs you

Alexa and Amazon's assistants stop answering from your pages. Verify with reverse DNS to crawl.amazonbot.amazon before trusting the user-agent.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)

Allow it instead

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

Ask this page a question, with one GET

A question about this page, answered by a call you can make right now — no key, no account, no JSON-RPC, nothing to assemble. The query string is already filled in with this page's own subject.

curl -s 'https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/tools/verification-methods?crawler=amazonbot&s=client-dossiers'

• /tools/verification-methods?crawler=amazonbot
  How do I prove a request really is Amazonbot? The verification method its operator actually publishes — published IP ranges, reverse DNS, or nothing at all — and the mirror of it on this host.

Every parameter above is a value the endpoint reads, not an address it visits: nothing is fetched on your behalf. Called without any parameter, each endpoint returns its own specification instead of an error. All of them.

Operator documentation: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-all-ai · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility