Amzn-User
Operated by Amazon · Fetches when a user asks
If you block it
A disallow may not stop it.
What Amazon says it is for
Fetches live web pages on a user’s behalf, to answer Alexa questions that need current information. Amazon states it is not used for training.
Published details
- robots.txt
- Says robots.txt may not apply“may not follow all robots.txt directives”
- robots.txt caching
- Amazon says changes take up to 30 days to take effect, because its crawlers use a cached copy.
- User agent
- Not published as a full string. Amazon publishes only the token.Match on the prefix
Amzn-Userrather than the whole string: operators version these, and an exact match stops working on the next release. - Verification
- Published address list: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
Source: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot Read .