Amazonbot
Amazon · Training crawlers · User agent + IP range
About this crawler
Improves Amazon products and services and may be used to train Amazon AI models.
Usually means: Public content is being collected that may end up in model training data or large web datasets.
User agent
Amazonbot
MetricRaven matches this token anywhere in the request's user agent, ignoring case. Operators add version numbers and browser text around it, for example "Amazonbot/1.0".
IP verification
Verified when the user agent and the IP range both match
1User agent
The request's user agent contains
Amazonbot.2Request IP
Your server-side tracker sends the IP that made the request.
3Range check
The IP is compared with the ranges Amazon publishes, refreshed twice a day.
Range sources
Amazonbot IP addresses
Control it in robots.txt
User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /private/
Well-behaved crawlers re-read robots.txt within a day or so.
Questions
- What is Amazonbot?
- Improves Amazon products and services and may be used to train Amazon AI models. MetricRaven groups it under Training crawlers: crawlers collecting public pages that may be used to train AI models.
- How do I verify that a request really comes from Amazonbot?
- Check both the user agent and the IP. Requests from Amazonbot contain "Amazonbot" in the user agent and come from the IP ranges Amazon publishes (https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/). A request with the name but another IP is likely spoofed.
- How do I block or allow Amazonbot?
- Add a robots.txt group for "Amazonbot" with the paths to allow or disallow. Fetchers that act for a user may ignore robots.txt; block those at your server or firewall instead.
- How can I see when Amazonbot visits my website?
- Most crawlers never run JavaScript, so browser analytics miss them. MetricRaven's @metricraven/ai-crawl package reports crawler requests from your server, verifies their IPs against published ranges, and shows which pages each crawler reads.
See when AI assistants and crawlers read your site
Add one line to your server and MetricRaven shows which assistants, search engines and training crawlers request your pages, which ones are IP-verified, and the URLs they expected to find, including 404s.