Amazonbot
Amazon documents Amazonbot as a crawler used for Alexa answers and related product improvement. Motif stores it as class model.
- Operator
- Amazon
- Motif family
- amazon
- Motif class
- Model-related crawler
- In Motif classifier
- Yes
- robots.txt
- Vendor documents that it honors robots.txt
- Executes JavaScript
- No
- Verified in Motif
- Amazon publishes crawler docs. Motif does not check source IPs
What Motif will and will not claim
Motif classifies Amazonbot as family amazon, class model, on tracker or collector hits.
Revenue
Not a visitor. Amzn-User and Amzn-SearchBot are separate identities when those tokens appear.
Vendor documentation
Start with the vendor page at https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot. Motif stores the controlled token from a self-reported User-Agent.
Amazonbot User-Agent example
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)Allow Amazonbot in robots.txt
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /Block Amazonbot in robots.txt
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /Does Amazonbot count as a visit in Motif?
No. If Amazonbot hits the Motif tracker or collector it increments AI crawlers. It does not create a visitor and cannot win a recommendation.
Will Motif show Amazonbot on my HTML pages?
Only if that client requested /m.js or POST /v1/events. HTML-only crawls of the origin never reach Motif. Saying otherwise would be a product lie.
Should I block Amazonbot?
Model-related crawlers are a data-policy call. Allowing or blocking them does not create Stripe customers. Motif will not pretend a crawler hit is demand.