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title: "What is Amazonbot? Amazon's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "Amazon crawler used to improve Alexa answers and Amazon products. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/amazonbot
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# Amazonbot

by Amazon

Search engine UA + reverse DNS

Crawls pages for a traditional search index, which is what lets them rank.

Amazon crawler used to improve Alexa answers and Amazon products.

## What it usually means

Amazon is crawling this page to support Alexa's answers and its own product surfaces.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`amazonbot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: Amazonbot`

Free tools

[Verify a Amazonbot request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=amazonbot) [Check if your site allows Amazonbot](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

## How it's verified

Reverse DNS suffixes

`.crawl.amazonbot.amazon`

[Amazon's page for Amazonbot](https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot)

## Sources

-   [Amazon crawler docs](https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot)

## More from Amazon

[

Amzn-SearchBot

Amazon crawler that makes content eligible for Amazon search experiences.

](/bot-directory/amzn-searchbot)[

Amzn-User

User-triggered Amazon fetches for fresh answers in products such as Alexa.

](/bot-directory/amzn-user)

## Similar bots

[

Applebot

Apple

Apple crawler for Siri and Spotlight Suggestions, spanning search and training use.

](/bot-directory/applebot)[

Baiduspider

Baidu

Baidu's crawler for its search index.

](/bot-directory/baiduspider)[

Bingbot

Microsoft

Microsoft crawler for Bing Search indexing.

](/bot-directory/bingbot)[

DuckDuckBot

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo's crawler for its own search results.

](/bot-directory/duckduckbot)

## See if Amazonbot has visited your site

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