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AmazonProductDiscoverybot

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Amazon's product crawler, which collects publicly available product details from Amazon selling partner, brand and retailer websites to improve the accuracy and completeness of product information in Amazon's store. Amazon documents that it honours robots.txt user-agent and disallow directives, with changes taking up to 24 hours to apply, and that it does not support crawl-delay, nofollow or noindex.

Operated by Amazon · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexAmazonProductDiscovery/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 (compatible; AmazonProductDiscovery/1.0; https://vendorcentral.amazon.com/support/amazonproductbot)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Operator publishes no verification path

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: AmazonProductDiscoverybot)

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.