Amazonbot
Amazon web crawler for product discovery
About this crawler
Amazonbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Amazonbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Amazonbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
7.0%
Technical details
- Name
- Amazonbot
- Pattern
Amazonbot- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
- Added
- 2020/03/02
- rDNS suffixes
.amazon.com,.amazonaws.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Amazonbot with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.amazon.com.amazonaws.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Amazonbot:
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Amazonbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Amazonbot") {
return 403;
}
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