Amzn-User
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Amzn-User fetches live data from the web when an Alexa question needs up-to-date information, and Amazon says it does not crawl content for generative AI model training. Amazon lists the IP addresses it uses on a separate page.
Fact sheet
- Operator
- Amazon
- What it is for
- It fetches a page when someone asks the assistant a question, to answer with it.
- Assistant it feeds
- Amazon: Alexa
- Counts towards the Parsigo score
- Yes. It fetches pages for one of the assistants we measure.
- Official documentation
- developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
If you block it
You ask the assistant (Amazon: Alexa) not to fetch your pages when someone asks it a question. The operator warns that robots.txt may not apply to these requests, because a person starts them.
Allow or block
A group of its own makes Amzn-User ignore the “User-agent: *” rules. If you have Disallow lines there that should still apply to it, repeat them inside its group. To allow it, writing nothing is usually enough.
Allow
User-agent: Amzn-User Allow: /
Block
User-agent: Amzn-User Disallow: /
Test it on your site
We run the diagnostic on your site and show you whether Amzn-User can get in, with the robots.txt line that decides it. Free, no sign-up.
Worth knowing
Fetches up-to-date information to answer Alexa queries. Amazon warns it may not follow every robots.txt directive, because a user can start its actions.