Shopping agent from Amazon
Rufus (shopping assistant)
In short
Rufus (shopping assistant) is Amazon's shopping agent. Rufus 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. Kept as a row because merchants ask; any web fetch it triggers would surface as Amzn-User if it follows Amazon's documented fetcher.
- Operator
- Amazon
- Purpose
- Shopping agent All shopping agent rows. 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 applicable to third-party sites
- 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). Rufus answers inside Amazon's store; no third-party fetch identity is documented. Source, read 2026-11-04.
- Verification
Nothing published
The operator publishes no list, reverse DNS pattern or key directory a site owner can check. Documentation, read 2026-11-04.
- IP ranges
- Not published.
- Rate behaviour
- Not published.
- Block rate
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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.
Note. Kept as a row because merchants ask; any web fetch it triggers would surface as Amzn-User if it follows Amazon's documented fetcher.
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.
- IP lists
- 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 Training
- Amzn-SearchBot Search index
- Amzn-User Live answer fetch
- Buy for Me (shopping agent) Shopping agent
Sources
Last reviewed 2026-11-04