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# Buy for Me: user agent, token, block rate | Agent Ready Crawlers

> Buy for Me from Amazon: no robots.txt token, shopping agent purpose and what a site can check; no exact user-agent string is published. Read 2026-11-04.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/amazon-buy-for-me
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

Shopping agent from Amazon

# Buy for Me (shopping agent)

In short

Buy for Me (shopping agent) is Amazon's shopping agent. Buy for Me has no robots.txt token, so robots.txt cannot address it and the crawl cannot measure a block rate. The operator publishes nothing a site can check. Buy for Me has no operator bot documentation, checked 2026-11-04. Buys from other brands' sites through the Amazon Shopping app.

Operator

[Amazon](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/operator/amazon/) Vendor profile: [Amazon](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/amazon/)

Purpose

Shopping agent [All shopping agent rows](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/purpose/shopping-agent/). An agent that compares, selects or buys goods for a person.

User-agent string

No exact string is published. What the operator or a third party says: Not published

robots.txt token

None. No robots.txt line can address this agent.

Respects robots.txt

No documentation

operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04). Amazon's Buy for Me announcement (2025-04-03) does not describe how the agent identifies itself to brand sites. [Source](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-shopping-app-buy-for-me-brands), read 2026-11-04.

Operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04).

Verification

Nothing published

The operator publishes no list, reverse DNS pattern or key directory a site owner can check. [Documentation](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-shopping-app-buy-for-me-brands), read 2026-11-04.

IP ranges

Not published.

Rate behaviour

Not published.

Block rate

None: the agent has no token, so a robots.txt block rate does not exist.

Documentation

Operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04). [Closest page read](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-shopping-app-buy-for-me-brands).

Note. Buys from other brands' sites through the Amazon Shopping app. GeekWire reports Amazon says Buy for Me identifies itself and lets brands opt out, but no identifier or opt-out mechanism is published.

## Allow and refuse lines

This agent has no robots.txt token, so there are no lines to copy. Without a token, a published list or a signature, a site owner cannot tell it from an ordinary visitor by request alone.

Refusing or allowing in robots.txt states a preference. Enforcement of a refusal belongs in your WAF; see how to verify the identity above.

## Amazon in the Verification Ledger

Three IP lists on HTML pages with JSON bodies; nothing for Buy for Me or Rufus. [All operators](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/verification/).

IP lists

-   [developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/](https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/ip-addresses/)
-   [developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresses/](https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresses/)
-   [developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/live-ip-addresses/](https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/live-ip-addresses/)

Reverse DNS

publishes nothing

Key directory

publishes nothing

Cloudflare

not checked

Visa TAP registry

no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04)

Mastercard Agent Pay

no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04)

## Other Amazon rows

-   [Amazonbot](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/amazonbot/) Training token Amazonbot
-   [Amzn-SearchBot](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/amzn-searchbot/) Search index token Amzn-SearchBot
-   [Amzn-User](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/amzn-user/) Live answer fetch token Amzn-User
-   [Rufus (shopping assistant)](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/amazon-rufus/) Shopping agent no token

## Sources

-   [aboutamazon.com: amazon shopping app buy for me brands](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-shopping-app-buy-for-me-brands) read 2026-11-04
-   [Amazon Web Search crawlers](https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot) read 2026-11-04
-   [GeekWire: Amazon blocks Meta's Muse](https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-blocks-metas-muse-ai-assistant-in-new-standoff-over-agentic-shopping/) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04