What AmazonProductDiscovery does
AmazonProductDiscovery collects publicly available product information from seller, brand, and retailer websites to improve the accuracy and completeness of product information on Amazon. It identifies itself in user agent strings as AmazonProductDiscovery/1.0 with a link to vendorcentral.amazon.com. It respects robots.txt user-agent and disallow rules, and Amazon provides amazon-product-discovery-bot@amazon.com as a contact for questions.
How to control AmazonProductDiscovery
Target AmazonProductDiscovery in your robots.txt with the AmazonProductDiscovery token. Rules apply per bot, so you can allow this one while blocking others, or the reverse.
Allow AmazonProductDiscovery
User-agent: AmazonProductDiscovery
Allow: /Block AmazonProductDiscovery
User-agent: AmazonProductDiscovery
Disallow: /Amazon states that robots.txt changes may take up to 24 hours to be picked up, and that the bot does not support the crawl-delay, nofollow, or noindex directives.
How to identify AmazonProductDiscovery
Temso identifies AmazonProductDiscoverytraffic by matching the request's User-Agent header against this pattern. User-agent strings can be spoofed, so treat a match as an indication, not proof.
AmazonProductDiscoveryAmazonProductDiscovery FAQ
What is AmazonProductDiscovery?
It is an Amazon bot that collects publicly available product information from seller, brand, and retailer websites to improve the accuracy and completeness of product information shown on Amazon. It identifies itself in user agent strings as AmazonProductDiscovery/1.0.
How do I block AmazonProductDiscovery?
Add a robots.txt group with "User-agent: AmazonProductDiscovery" followed by "Disallow: /". Amazon states robots.txt changes may take up to 24 hours to take effect, and the bot does not support crawl-delay, nofollow, or noindex.
About Search Engine Crawlers
Classic search indexers that now also feed AI features: Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode build on Googlebot's index, and Microsoft Copilot builds on Bingbot's.
Blocking these removes you from both traditional rankings and the AI answers built on top of those indexes, usually the most costly block of all.
