Amazonbot
| Vendor | Amazon |
| Type | Crawler powering Alexa / Amazon Q answers |
| robots.txt token | Amazonbot |
| JavaScript rendering | Yes |
| Honors robots.txt | Yes |
| Vendor docs | developer.amazon.com/amazonbot |
User-Agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)Purpose
Amazon's first-party crawler for its Alexa Voice service and Amazon Q (Amazon's enterprise AI assistant). Used to fetch web pages that Alexa cites in voice answers and that Amazon Q references in its responses.
Distinct from Amazon's commerce crawlers (which crawl seller product feeds, not the open web). Amazonbot is the answer-engine crawler.
Quirks
- Renders JavaScript, similar to Googlebot's WRS.
- Honors robots.txt.
- Volume is moderate; not continuous.
How to allow / block
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /To block (removes Alexa visibility):
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /