Amzn-User
Amazon documents Amzn-User as a user-triggered fetch, distinct from Amazonbot.
- Operator
- Amazon
- Motif family
- amazon
- Motif class
- User-requested fetch
- In Motif classifier
- Yes
- robots.txt
- Often a user-initiated fetch; check vendor docs
- Executes JavaScript
- No
- Verified in Motif
- Vendor docs exist. Motif does not check source IPs
What Motif will and will not claim
Motif classifies Amzn-User as family amazon, class user, on tracker or collector hits.
Revenue
Not a visitor and not an Amazon ads click. Paid Amazon traffic still needs its own utm or click id.
Vendor documentation
Start with the vendor page at https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot. Motif stores the controlled token from a self-reported User-Agent.
Amzn-User User-Agent example
Amzn-UserAllow Amzn-User in robots.txt
User-agent: Amzn-User
Allow: /Block Amzn-User in robots.txt
User-agent: Amzn-User
Disallow: /Does Amzn-User count as a visit in Motif?
No. If Amzn-User hits the Motif tracker or collector it increments AI crawlers. It does not create a visitor and cannot win a recommendation.
Will Motif show Amzn-User 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 Amzn-User?
User-requested fetchers often ignore robots.txt because a person asked for the page. Blocking them in robots.txt may do nothing. They are still not visitors in Motif.