AmazonBuyForMe

What is AmazonBuyForMe?

Browses shopping sites during Amazon Buy For Me agent purchases. Agent crawlers browse the web on a user's behalf inside AI tools: opening pages, reading documentation, and completing tasks. Traffic arrives from engaged users who asked for exactly what you offer. Blocking agents does not protect content from training, but it does cut off this kind of high-intent visit.

Allowing it keeps your site reachable to AI agents acting for users — an emerging traffic channel worth keeping open.

Does AmazonBuyForMe respect robots.txt?

Yes. AmazonBuyForMe honors robots.txt directives, including wildcard rules and Allow lines. A Disallow rule for this crawler is respected — but remember robots.txt is a voluntary protocol across the whole industry, not a wall.

How to block AmazonBuyForMe

Add this group to your robots.txt to deny AmazonBuyForMe across your whole site:

User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
Disallow: /

Blocking it stops agent-driven visits but provides no real content protection, since agents only fetch pages the user asked for.

How to allow AmazonBuyForMe

AmazonBuyForMe is allowed by default on every site. It only gets blocked if a matching rule exists — most often a global User-agent: * group with Disallow: /. To exempt it while blocking other bots, put an empty Disallow group for it before the global block:

User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /